Betsy Robinson

Betsy Robinson writes funny literary fiction about flawed people. Her novel The Last Will & Testament of Zelda McFigg won Black Lawrence Press’s 2013 Big Moose Prize and was published in September 2014. This was followed by the February 10, 2015 publication of her late mother, Edna Robinson’s, novel, The Trouble with the Truth (edited by Betsy), as the debut book of Infinite Words, a new imprint of Simon & Schuster. Betsy’s first novel, Plan Z by Leslie Kove, was published by Mid-List Press in 2001 as winner of their First Novel Series Award. Her most recent novels, Cats on a Pole and The Spectators, were published by Kano Press. (The Spectators ties all her books together.)

Betsy, a former actor, has been a working journalist for decades; she was managing editor of Spirituality & Health magazine for almost seven years and she writes an almost-daily Substack column about culture and politics.