Tif Robinette was raised in a fundamentalist sect in West Virginia, homeschooled along with her eight younger siblings, and now lives with her partner and critters in an off-grid tiny home she built in the mountains of northern California.
Tif spent her twenties in NYC working in blue-chip art galleries by day and performing in experimental art warehouse shows by night. Out of her art practice, she began filmmaking, which led to an MFA in Screenwriting. But when scripts failed to satisfy her deepest literary yearnings, she wrote her first novel, JACKALOPE, a contemporary folk horror homage to Jane Eyre. She is currently in the query trenches with the manuscript and writing her second novel, BITTERGREEN, a Frankenstein-esque folk horror set in the Florida swamps. When she is drowning in novel writing, she comes up for air to write short stories.
Her work has been published in various places, including The Southeast Review, Phile Magazine, Gingerzine, and Black Hare Press. Every week, she trades critiques in a fantastic writing group, whose keen eyeballs and insightful notes spur her to keep crafting age-old stories in fresh ways.
