Roxana Robinson is the author of eleven books: seven novels, three short story collections, and the biography of Georgia O'Keeffe. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper's, Slate, The New York Times, The Nation, Best American Short Stories, and elsewhere. Her novel Cost won the Maine PWA Award for Fiction. Her novel, Sparta, won the James Webb Award from the USMC Heritage Foundation and the Maine PWA Fiction Award.