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 and other publications.

(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 and other publications. She enjoys encouraging young readers, writers, and artists through school visits and speaks to audiences of all ages.

(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.

Robyn's fiction has appeared in Highlights, and her poetry has been accepted by Ladybug and has appeard in Hopscotch for Girls and Berry Blue Haiku, which has also published her artwork. (Berry Blue Haiku is now an online blog journal with Robyn as assistant editor.) In March 2012, two of her poems will appear in Georgia Heard's anthology of found poems from Roaring Brook Press, The Arrow Finds its Mark. Her haiku has been accepted or published by Modern Haiku, Notes from the Gean, The Heron's Nest, and A Hundred Gourds. She's also written nature profiles of animals for a character education curriculum (Core Essentials) for three years. Robyn enjoys sharing her passions for writing, art, and animals through school visits and speaking engagements.

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 and is doing so again for 2012 and 2013. She coordinated a poetry retreat for the region in 2011.

She and her husband of 27 years share life with a daughter in college and son in high school - all are vegetarians - and a spirited assortment of dogs and cats.