Robin Carstensen

Robin Carstensen’s In the Temple of Shining Mercy was awarded an annual first-place award by Iron Horse Literary Press, and published in 2017.  Poems are also published in BorderSenses, Southern Humanities Review, Flowersong Press anthologies, Lacar Press LGBTQI+ anthology, Demeter Press’s anthology, Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland, and many more. She directs the creative writing program at Texas A&M University-CC where she advises The Windward Review: Literary Journal of the South Texas Coastal Bend, and is co-founding, senior editor of the Switchgrass Review: literary journal of health, and transformation.