Liberated from Methodist University, where I served as Professor of English & Writing and Director of the Writing Center, I now spend my time writing, editing, and teaching yoga and writing, as well as offering instruction, workshops, and retreats. I’m available for private individual and group instruction. My pronouns are she, her, and hers.

Most often, I’m teaching yoga at Laughing Elephant Yoga, though sometimes I teach writing classes there and facilitate workshops. I also teach classes at Blue Ridge Community College, Simple Life, The Horseshoe Farm, and Yoga & Massage.

Please check out my books on this website, and here are links to two essays I’ve published: America “Un-tied” | Merion West and Essay: Something Naked and Necessary by Robin Greene | Frontier Poetry – Exploring the Edges of Contemporary Poetry

I’m a past recipient of a cosponsored National Endowment of Arts and North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship in Writing, the Al Cleveland Award for Teaching, the Best Professor of the Year Award, and the McLean Endowed Chair of English. I’ve been nominated for a Pushcart a couple of times and have won several writing awards.

When I’m not professionally engaged, I’m enjoying my other passions: reading, hiking, meditating, knitting, and weaving.

I live in the apple-orchard-filled mountains of Hendersonville, NC—about twenty-five minutes south of Asheville—with my husband, ex-colleague and fellow writer, Michael Colonnese. We moved here in November 2020, after living in Fayetteville, NC, for over thirty years.

Originally from Queens, NY, I feel that a part of me will always be a New Yorker. Jewish by birth, heritage, and culture, I mostly practice Buddhism and maintain a daily meditation practice.

Michael and I have been married for over forty-seven years, have two grown sons, Dan and Ben, two daughters-in-law, Jennifer and Jenna, and two granddaughters, Lilly and Harper.

Dan, Jennifer, and Lilly live in Cambridge, MA. Dan works in IT, and Jennifer is a nurse-practitioner and diabetes educator. Ben and wife Jenna live in Asheville, NC, where Ben works as a glass artist, and Jenna works as a hair artist. If you’re interested in glass, I invite you to check out Ben’s website at: www.bgcglass.com.

My formal education includes an MA in Literature from Binghamton University, an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Art, and yoga teacher certification from Asheville Yoga Center. Additionally, I have yoga teaching certifications in Yin Yoga, Children’s Yoga, Meditation, and Prenatal Yoga. My MFA is in poetry, and I’ve studied most notably with Robert Creeley, Galway Kinnell, Milton Kessler, Mark Doty, Richard Jackson, Lynda Hull, David Wojahn, and Susan Mitchell.

If you’re interested in a more detailed list of my credentials—courses I’ve taught, workshops and retreats I’ve facilitated, readings I’ve done, honors I’ve received, and my publications—please check out my C.V.

And, of course, feel free to connect with me by email, text, or phone; or use the Contact tab (greene.robin@gmail.com / 910.988.5403).