Author Bio
Robin Gaby Fisher is a news feature writer for The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey's largest daily newspaper. She specializes in telling stories about regular people living through extraordinary circumstances. Her newspaper series "After the Fire," about two students who were critically burned in the Seton Hall dormitory fire, was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. In 2004 her series "Last Chance High," about a special school for troubled teens, was also a finalist for a Pulitzer. The series received the Nieman Foundation at Harvard's 2005 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers.
Fisher's journalism career grew out of a lifelong curiousity about people and their stories. Her grade school history teacher, Nicholas Picciano, says today that when other girls in his class were reading Nancy Drew, Fisher always had her nose in a biography. Today, reading continues to be a source of great happiness for Fisher, who favors non-fiction and memoirs. Favorite books include "Zelda" by Nancy Milford, "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote, "Remembering Denny" by Calvin Trillin, and "Night" by Elie Wiesel.
Fisher is married to Loren Fisher, a photojournalist. They live in Somerset County, New Jersey and Woodstock, Vermont. When she isn't reading or writing, she loves spending time with her nieces and nephews and hiking the mountains of Vermont with her Bernese Mountain dog, Boomer.