Robin Silbergleid

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.  Her forthcoming book Queer Mother Memoirs: Experiments in Life/Narrative is an autotheoretical project that assembles an archive of contemporary memoirs written by and about queer mothers and motherhood (1997 to the present).  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 enacts 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).  Her work-in-progress, tentatively titled The Old Country, is a book of poems that explores family history and Russian-Jewish immigration at the turn of the twentieth century.  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.