Robin Lippincott was born and raised in a small, rural town in Central Florida, pre-Disney World. His latest books include Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell, Rufus + Syd, a novel for young adults co-written with Julia Watts, and the novel In the Meantime. His fiction/nonfiction have appeared in The Paris Review, Fence, American Short Fiction and many other journals. He lives in the Boston area and teaches in Spalding�s low-residency MFA Writing Program.