Robyn Hood Black - children's author

(in a nutshell)

Robyn Hood Black is the author of Sir Mike (Scholastic Library, 2005) and Wolves (Intervisual Books, 2008) and writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for children's magazines.

(in a coconut shell)

Robyn Hood Black is a children's author living in Northeast Georgia. Her books include Sir Mike (Scholastic Library, 2005) and Wolves (Intervisual Books, 2008). She also writes fiction, nonfiction and poetry for children's magazines. She enjoys encouraging young readers, writers, and artists through school visits.

(the whole coconut)

Robyn Hood Black is a children's author living in Northeast Georgia. Her books include Sir Mike (Scholastic Library, 2005), a Rookie Reader written in rhyme, and Wolves (Intervisual Books, 2008), a nonfiction, interactive book and part of Intervisual's Animal Vault series.

She was born in Tennessee the same year two of her favorite books debuted: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak and It's Like This, Cat by Emily Neville. (That's 1963 if you don't want to look it up.)

Robyn grew up writing and drawing in Orlando, Florida - under the spell of Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and rocket trails launched from the coast. She spent hours and days and years riding her bike around lakes and exploring the woods near her neighborhood. Her childhood included companionship with lizards, gerbils, hamsters, a parakeet, fish, turtles, cats, and dogs - pretty much any animal her parents would let her have. She talked to wild birds on a fairly regular basis and sometimes still does.

Editor of her elementary school newspaper at Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando, she later worked on the newspaper staff at Winter Park High School. Copy editor for her college yearbook, Robyn was a Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude graduate of Furman University with a B.A. in English.

Robyn draws on a variety of work experience from newspaper reporter to freelance artist to middle school English teacher. She has worked extensively with animals and children and has volunteered at the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in Dahlonega, Ga., since 2008. She recently served as co-president of the Lakeview Academy Arts Guild and is a parent youth leader at her family's church.

An active member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Robyn coordinated the 2007, 2008 and 2009 SCBWI Southern Breeze Springmingle conferences in Atlanta.

She and her husband of 26 years share life with two active teenagers - all are vegetarians - and a spirited assortment of dogs and cats.

Robyn's current creative projects include picture books, magazine articles, poetry, and a historical novel. She enjoys sharing her passions for writing, art, and animals through speaking engagements and school visits.