Kathryn L Robinson
Born and raised in New Jersey, I made my first trip abroad to Madrid during my junior year of college. After that, I headed west, to Arizona, where I got a Masters in Teaching English as a Second Language at the University of Arizona in Tucson. A job led me to Puerto Rico, and I remained on the island from 1974 to 2013. During that time, I wore three hats – teaching and occasionally directing the English Department of the University of Puerto Rico at Carolina, raising two daughters, and freelance writing.
As a freelancer, I edited such magazines as Qué Pasa and Bienvenidos; contributed to The San Juan Star, Caribbean Travel and Life, The New York Times Travel Section, and other publications; prepared travel spots for WOSO radio station; and wrote scripts for GeoAmbiente documentaries about El Yunque 
National Forest, the Arecibo Observatory, and Guánica Dry Forest. My translation of a Julio Cortázar short story appeared in Columbia University’s Translation magazine. Published books include The Other Puerto Rico and Where Dwarfs Reign: A Tropical Rain Forest in Puerto Rico.
In 2013 my husband, John Harmon, and I moved to Spokane, Washington, where I’ve learned to love the region’s lakes as much as the (admittedly much warmer) Caribbean waters. Occasional part-time work at a local university has left me with ample hours to work on a decades-old fragment of a novel. With input from a Spokane fiction writers group, I recently completed and revised the manuscript. Tentatively titled The Irony of Tree Ferns, it showcases the forest I wrote about in Where Dwarfs Reign. My current efforts focus on finding an agent for the manuscript and getting ideas for a second novel, which will be based in Chile’s Lake District.