Maria Robinson earned her BA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and has done graduate work at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has been awarded fellowships from the Robert M. MacNamara Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center, and her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in the Bellevue Literary Review, the cream city review, Spork, and Pindeldyboz among others. She is also a fiction editor at r.kv.r.y, an online quarterly of poetry and prose.