Robin Long writes both poetry and historical fiction. She has voraciously studied Emily Dickinson for nearly fifteen years to inform her historical fiction thesis-turned-two-book-series on the life of Dickinson, The Other Dickinson. Long has completed Book One and continues work on Book Two.
Long was alternate resident for the 2024 Edith Wharton/Straw Dog Guild Writers-in-Residence program at The Mount, as well as a 2020 Pushcart Prize nominee for her poem, “What a time spent trying now” — which was selected as a National Poetry Month Editor’s Pick from Brain Mill Press. She’s been a featured performer for the FEELS+Artery LIVE Digital Poetry Event (Volume 2, The Soul) and a First Line Poetry Series finalist with Alexandria Quarterly for her original poem featuring Dickinson’s line, “A not admitting of the wound.”
Her poetry can be found in the 2022 issue of American Writers Review, with FEELS Zine in the Freedom issue and in the Kinship issue, as well as in the Art in the Time of Covid-19 eBook by San Fedele Press, The 2021 Texas Poetry Calendar by Kallisto Gaia Press, and in The /tƐmz/ Review, among others.
The Other Dickinson: a Manuscript 