Mary Cennamo Robison (born January 14, 1949, in Washington, D.C., United States) is an American short story writer and novelist.
She has been categorized as a founding "minimalist" writer along with authors such as Amy Hempel, Frederick Barthelme, and Raymond Carver.
During the 1980s, she published the novel Oh!, which was made into a film by Paramount called Twister starring Harry Dean Stanton.
In the 1990s, she suffered from severe writer's block and in an effort to overcome it, she scribbled her thoughts on thousands of index cards.
Her novel One DOA, One on the Way was chosen by Oprah Winfrey's Book Club for 2009 summer time reading.