She is best known for her portraits of characters from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series, the Robin Wood Tarot Deck[1][2][3] and the cover art for several of Scott Cunningham's books on neo-Paganism.

[4] Robin Wood was born in November 1953,[5] and graduated from Michigan State University in 1976 with a degree in Special Education for the Visually Impaired.

[5] Aside from her Pern artwork, Robin Wood also did book covers for Dragon magazine and Llewellyn Publishing between 1985 and 1993 and designed a Tarot deck.

Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez, for ICv2, reported "Wood was most noted for creating painted covers of Dragon magazine between 1983 and 1993, and portraits of characters from Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series.

[6] Robin Wood also became heavily involved in content creation within the virtual world of Second Life; she created a texture tutorial and library available within the game,[7] and provided templates and other information on her own website.