Robin Ekiss is the author of the poetry collection The Mansion of Happiness (2009), which won the Shenandoah Glasgow Prize and was a Finalist for the Balcones Poetry Prize, the Northern California Book Award, and the Commonwealth Club’s California Book Award. A resident of San Francisco, she received a 2007 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University. Her poems have been published in the American Poetry Review, Atlantic Monthly, VQR, TriQuarterly, and Best New Poets 2007 from Samovar Press.