Lewis Robinson was born in Natick, Massachusetts, and grew up in Maine.
He attended Middlebury College and later, the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a teaching-writing fellow.
He has taught fiction writing at Colby College, Stanford University Continuing Studies, and was the writer-in-residence at Phillips Academy, Andover, and is currently on the faculty at University of Maine at Farmington[1] Robinson was a 2003 recipient of the Whiting Award, and a 2004 recipient of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award Additionally, he has written for Sports Illustrated and The New York Times.
His short stories have appeared in various publications, including Tin House, The Missouri Review, The Baffler, Open City, as well as being featured on the NPR program Selected Shorts.
Robinson hosts the podcast Talk Shop, for which he interviewed writers such as Nicholson Baker, Richard Russo, Sara Corbett, Phuc Tran, Monica Wood, Brock Clarke, and others.