Robin Kemp was born in
New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day. A former print journalist and CNN
newswriter, she holds degrees in English and creative writing from
Georgia State and the University of New Orleans, and is finishing her
Ph.D. at Georgia State, where she teaches writing. Her poetry has
appeared in New Orleans Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Texas Review,
and elsewhere, and has been anthologized in Rites of Spring (Pecan
Grove Press), Maple Leaf Rag III (Portals Press), and Letters from the
World: Poems from the WOM-PO Listserv (Red Hen Press). She lives
outside Atlanta until she can get closer to the water.