Robyn Braun is an award-winning writer and scholar.
Robyn’s debut novella, The Head, is published by Enfield and Wizenty, an imprint of Great Plains Press. Her essay, “The Stutter of Emmett’s Stutter” won subTerrain’s 2021 Lush Triumphant Prize for creative nonfiction.
Robyn earned a Master’s scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) for her MFA through UBC’s School of Creative Writing. “The UBC MFA taught me how to take my work seriously. And a few other little tricks,” says Robyn of her time in the program.
From 2007 to 2009 Robyn was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany where she also held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship. Robyn earned her PhD from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in 2007 and her dissertation won the University’s Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement at the Doctoral Level.
Robyn is a Teaching Professor of argumentation, rhetoric, and writing in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Alberta.