Robyn Carter Writer Educator Storyteller

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I write fiction, grants, blogs, explainer videos, and copy & content for small business websites, including landing & about pages, product descriptions, and promotional copy.

When I'm not writing, I teach writing to kids and college students. As an educator, I develop curricular resources and blog about teaching, but as a freelancer, I mix it up. Canine bowel obstruction, Alaska, mental illness, affordable housing, and lip gloss have each starred in recent projects.

Check Cozy Ripples for my TV reviews. Find my articles in Playboy, KQED Teach, and Teachers & Writers Magazine, and my fiction in Conjunctions, Colorado Review, Prime Number Magazine, and other journals. My copy and graphics appear on websites that sell dog training, cosmetics, swimming pools, and sleep.

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Intersection for the Arts is a bedrock Bay Area arts nonprofit that provides people working in arts and culture with fiscal sponsorship and resources to grow.

Recent Work

The Bureau Dispatch •

From Fifty-One to Eleven

When you were five the sky looked so enormous it was invisible. Then your big-kid eyes grew in at nine and you saw its shortcomings in a documentary about the Apollo Missions. From space, it’s nothing really, just a webby membrane coating the world in a thin, blue hum. Back then you didn’t think about how it’s all that separates us from never-ending darkness.

But now that you’re eleven, you do. You’re hardly a kid anymore. You know the same amount of math most grown-ups do: enough to figure out
Cozy Ripples •

PHYSICAL Streaming on Apple+

A disturbing, but delicious ‘80s flashback featuring shiny fashion and big hair, a Season 2 nod to Richard Simmons, and an honest and nuanced look at the psychosocial forces that feed an eating disorder.

Sheila Rubin (Rose Byrne) is a frustrated housewife who relies on heavy doses of ballet and bulimia to dull the blades of an especially ‘80s SoCal spin on the Feminine Mystique. When ballet class is canceled, she finds salvation in the newborn aerobics craze, but success is not easy.
Web Copy & Graphics - Landing & About Pages •

Dog Training | Heidi's Hund Haus | San Francisco

Raised in small-town Nebraska, I grew up around livestock, and trace my kinship with animals to childhood. As a graduate student, I fled the feedlots for more humane pastures, relocating to San Francisco where I earned a Master's Degree in cultural anthropology, then worked as an NIH-funded researcher at UCSF. When the Great Recession of 2008 dried up most scholarly grants, I fell into dog walking as a temporary gig, but soon realized I’d stumbled onto a rewarding new career. Though humans are a
ROOM2RUMINATIONS A Writing Workshop Round-up •

8 Mentor Texts that Shine a Light on Tone & Setting —

Writing Sense of Sight? Let There Be Light!

A scene’s light (or its absence) shapes both tone and setting, builds tension and adds dimension to character.

What does a scene’s light expose? What does it hide? What glimmers? What fades?

For a quick background on chiaroscuro - the role of light and darkness - as a literary device, check out this post by screenwriter and novelist Tom Avitabile. Without darkness, he reminds us, there cannot be light.

But how do we distill something this shadowy w