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Buy five or more author copies of Augustus: Narrative of a Slave Woman, and Robin will autograph the copies and Skype with your book club.

Robin is also available for author visits and educational presentations. Some discussion questions for book or educational groups are offered below; additional, audience-targeted questions available through email requests at: (Enable Javascript to see the email address)

Books may be purchased from the author at the discounted rate of $19.95 for individual books, and purchased for $16.95 for orders of five books. Place orders through email: (Enable Javascript to see the email address).

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Robin Greene is available for readings, workshops, and lectures in a variety of academic and public-interest topics such as: free verse poetry and prosody, the History of Contemporary American Poetry, American Slave Narratives as Literature, Honoring the Writer Within, and Meditation and Self-Reflective Writing. She can be reached through this site and by emailing her at: (Enable Javascript to see the email address).
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About Robin Greene

Robin Greene is professor of English and Writing, director of the Writing Center, and editor of Longleaf Press at Methodist University in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Greene has published two collections of poetry, Memories of Light and Lateral Drift, and a collection of women’s birthing narratives, Real Birth. She regularly publishes her poetry and nonfiction in journals. Greene is married and has two grown sons, Daniel and Benjamin.

In 1991, Greene’s chapbook, Memories of Light, won the North Carolina Writers’ Network competition and was published by Harperprints. Her nonfiction book, Real Birth, Women Share their Stories, was published by Generation Books in 2000, and her full-length poetry collection, Lateral Drift, was published by WOH Press in 2002. Her novel Augustus: Narrative of a Slave Woman is forthcoming in 2010 from Plain View Press.

A past recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in Writing, Greene regularly publishes her poetry and nonfiction in journals, and her creative nonfiction has aired on NPR.

Originally from New York City, Greene holds an MA from Binghamton University and a MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) at Norwich University. She has lived in Fayetteville since 1989.