Robin Lanehurst grew up in St. Louis, spent a decade in Texas as a public school teacher and counselor, and currently lives in North Portland with their wife and toddler. Her writing has been published in Psychology Today, PDX Parent, Motherwell, and Rooted in Rights, and she has collaborated on curriculum projects with non-profit clients like the One Love Foundation and Wellness Together. Robin was a finalist for the 2023 Summer Fishtrap Fellowship and long-listed for the 2021 Pen Parentis Writing Fellowship for new parents, and they are also an alumna of The Attic Institute’s Creative Nonfiction Studio. She enjoys writing at the intersection of parenthood, queerness, neurodivergence, and life in late-stage capitalism, and is committed to cultivating anti-racist practices in her personal and professional life.