Robin Silbergleid

Biography

Robin Silbergleid works in the areas of creative writing (poetry and creative nonfiction), twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature and culture, autotheory, and motherhood studies.  As a writer who holds both a PhD and MFA, she is particularly interested in exploring the sometimes vexed relationships between critical and creative writing; her collection Reading and Writing Experimental Texts: Critical Innovations (Palgrave 2017), co-edited with MSU alum Dr. Kristina Quynn, both theorizes and performative and creative modes of literary analysis. Her creative work focuses on issues of domesticity and the female body, specifically queer motherhood, reproductive loss, and infertility.  She is the author of the poetry collection The Baby Book (CavanKerry Press, 2015) and the memoir Texas Girl (Demeter Press, 2014), as well as the chapbooks In the Cubiculum Nocturnum (Dancing Girl Press, 2019) and Frida Kahlo, My Sister (Finishing Line, 2014).   She has a number of projects in the works, including the poems The Old Country (forthcoming from PANK), and “Queer Mother Memoirs: Experiments in Life/Narrative,” an autotheoretical project that assembles an archive of contemporary memoirs written by and about queer mothers and motherhood (1997 to the present). Additionally, she works with both the national art, oral history, and portraiture project The ART of Infertility and  IAMAS: International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship.