Robin Nixon

Robin Nixon’s writing explores the way humans – as both social and biological creatures – are connected to forces larger than themselves. Inspired by the likes of Barbara Kingsolver and Malcolm Gladwell, her work has been likened to Waterford glass: beautiful and crystal-clear.

Her book, Allergy-Free Kids; The Science-based Approach To Preventing Food Allergies, was published by HarperCollins in several different languages, as well as turned into an audiobook. She is now actively pursuing her fiction, primarily in novel form, while earning an MFA in Creative Writing at Warren Wilson.

Her work has appeared in Psychology Today, HuffPost, The Christian Science Monitor, Women on the Verge, Lit Angels, The Boston Globe and other publications. Her stories have won significant contests and topped “most emailed” lists. She is also a contributing member of the NYC Writer’s Circle.

Robin has always been interested in one thing: People. Before pursuing journalism through classes at Harvard, Robin graduated from Columbia University with a double major in biology and psychology. She delved further into the interior of the human by pursuing a PhD in Neural Science at NYU, before exploring the breadth of human culture by working internationally for development organizations in Sudan, Jordan, Iraq and Cambodia.

She is currently in search of a publisher for her debut novel Crescendo, a contemporary romance about the healing power of cross-racial relationships, after incorporating the feedback of developmental editor and poet Samiya Bakshir, who agreed to act as a sensitivity reader.

A second novel, Caught in the Mirror, a contemporary family drama, is the result of a thought experiment combining two facts: One, culture is sexualizing our daughters younger and younger. Two, puberty is physically occurring earlier and earlier (likely due to pollution and stress.) The book leads to the reveal of a pre-pubescent pregnancy.

Currently working on a third novel, Robin lives in Connecticut, which she loves for its proximity to NYC and the availability of the Long Island Sound, where she lets her four kids run rampant while she swims along the shore.