Robin McMillion was living in Houston when her nephew escaped from a cult and came to the U.S. for the first time. Overnight, she went from being a single mother of two to a single mother of three: her own children, plus her culture-shocked and traumatized nephew.

Robin grew up in journalism. Her parents owned a newspaper, where she worked as a child. She spent a year living and working in Europe before becoming a teacher in Texas public schools.

Robin is the author of The Children of the Children and The Catchings Press. She volunteers on a voter assistance hotline in Texas and as an editor for a non-profit journal in Washington. A member of the Writers’ League of Texas, Robin lives in Austin.

Interview with Literary Titan: “I got the idea for [The Children of the Children] not long after the Cold War ended. Freedom seemed to be breaking out everywhere. What a difference a few decades have made.”

Interview with Feathered Quill: “Of all types of extremism, I think religious extremism is the most oppressive because religion gets to the core of who we are as human beings.”

Author photo by Sierra Marie Photography