Robin Becker was born in 1951 in Philadelphia. She earned a BA and MA from Boston University and taught for seventeen years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Becker is the author of The Black Bear Inside Me (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018); Tiger Heron (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014); Domain of Perfect Affection (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006); The Horse Fair (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000); All-American Girl (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), which won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry; Giacometti’s Dog (1990); Backtalk (Alice James Books, 1982); and Personal Effects (Alice James Books, 1977). Her latest publication is Midsummer Count: New and Selected Poems (UNM Press, February, 2026).
