Robyn Ewing was born and raised near Philadelphia. In college she was a fine art/printmaking major, and studied William Hogarth and early English visual/verbal satirists abroad. After graduation, she worked as a fashion editor at Conde Nast, magazine art director for MTV, and baseball card designer for Topps. She later studied poetry at University of Iowa and fiction at Johns Hopkins, and won the Colorado Prize for her first book, Chemical Wedding (2002). She recently completed an MFA in documentary filmmaking at UCLA, and is currently writing scripts for the History Channel. She lives in Topanga Canyon, CA, with the lizards, coyotes, and fabulously odd desert plants.