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ROBIN BLACK's short story collection If I loved you, I would tell you this, was a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Prize and an O. Magazine Summer Reading Pick. Her debut novel Life Drawinghas been called a “magnificent literary achievement,” by Karen Russell; and of Black's writing Claire Messud has said “(she) is a writer of great wisdom, and illuminates, without undue emphasis, the flickering complexity of individual histories.” Black's stories and essays have been widely published including in The New York Times Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, The Southern Review and One Story. Winner of the 2005 Pirates Alley Faulkner/Wisdom Prize for a Short Story, she was the 2012-13 Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bryn Mawr College and has taught most recently in the Brooklyn College MFA Program. Black, who holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, lives with her family in Philadelphia. Her forthcoming book titled CRASH COURSE: 52 Essays From Where Writing and Life Collide will be out from Engine Books, April, 2016.