Robin Nixon

Whether drawing on her journalistic training to interpret science or using the artistic medium of contemporary fiction, 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 most recent publication, 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.

With the guidance of journalism classes at Harvard University, Robin continued her explorations of humanity while working as a health and science writer. Writing as Robin Nixon Pompa, her coverage of neuroscience, medicine, and psychology has appeared in Psychology Today, The Boston Globe, GeneWatch and LiveScience.com; and has been syndicated to HuffPost, The Christian Science Monitor, Yahoo!, FoxNews and MSNBC.

Before pursuing journalism, Robin graduated from Columbia University, and explored both the interior of the human and the breadth of human culture by first pursuing a PhD in Neural Science at NYU, and then working internationally. She wrote for development organizations in Sudan, Jordan, Iraq and Cambodia.

Robin currently lives in Connecticut with her family, where she is taking a deep dive into the world of fiction, now that her youngest child has entered kindergarten.

She is currently in search of a publisher for her debut novel Caught in the Mirror, a contemporary family drama, while editing a completed draft of a second novel about female friendship, both workshopped at Yale. Her self-published novel And We Never Arrive, the story of an NGO worker seeking to regain a sense of home, loosely reflects her time spent working across conflict zones, sacred sites and peaceful rural landscapes.

And, like any born writer, she recharges by turning to the page: in her off hours, you can find Robin working on a comedic screenplay about today’s sandwich generation of multi-tasking caregivers, squeezed between parents and kids. Because we might as well laugh!