Robin Miles

Robin Miles is an American actress, casting director, audiobook narrator and audiobook director. Miles has acted in Broadway shows and on TV shows including Law & Order and Murder by Numbers. She is best known for her audiobook narrations and narration director work for which she has won numerous awards, including Audie Awards, AudioFile Golden Voice, and Earphone Awards. Miles is revered in her field and is credited as one of the audiobook narrators saving the publishing industry. In 2017, Miles was inducted into Audible's Narrator Hall of Fame. Miles also has a voice training school, VOXpertise, for aspiring narrators. She has narrated over 300 books. Miles specializes in recreating "accents and speech patterns from around the globe."

Biography Robin Miles grew up in New Jersey and credits her immigrant neighborhood for immersing her in a rich world of accents, languages and cultures which she has been able to draw on for her narration work. Miles started in musical theater, but transitioned to drama. Miles graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies and she earned her Master of Fine Arts in Drama from Yale School of Drama.

After graduating and moving to New York City, Miles was looking for community service volunteer opportunities. She started book narration by volunteering to read for the American Foundation for the Blind and the National Library Service.

According to AudioFile magazine, who reviewed The Vela, "The best way to tie together a space opera written alternately by four authors" is "choosing the capable Robin Miles to narrate" as "Miles creatively utilizes dialects to differentiate the denizens of several planets that revolve around a dying sun".

AudioFile also reviewed The Shadow King, writing, "Robin Miles gives a flawless emotional narration of this superb novel, set in Ethiopia in 1974 and in 1935, on the eve of Mussolini's invasion. Mengiste's beautiful writing already draws fully formed characters; Miles adds yet another dimension to their inner lives by slowing and quickening her voice strategically, adding suspense and fervor to their experiences, particularly those of the tormented protagonist." Also reviewing The Shadow King, The Times wrote, "The eloquence of Maaza Mengiste's tribute to the forgotten women warriors who defended Ethiopia from Mussolini's invasion in 1935 is unforgettably conveyed by the narrator Robin Miles, whose upbringing in the ethnic melting pot of New Jersey has enhanced her gift for entering into character."

Awards and honors In 2014, Booklist named Miles a Voice of Choice narrator. AudioFile magazine has also named Miles a Golden Voice narrator. In 2017, she was inducted into Audible's Narrator Hall of Fame.

Awards YearAudiobookAwardResultRef.2007Brother, I'm Dying (2007) by Edwidge DanticatPublishers Weekly Listen-Up Award for BiographySelection 2010Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy SchiffPublishers Weekly Listen-Up Award for NonfictionWinner 2011Here in Harlem: Poems in Many Voices by MyersAudie Award for Distinguished Achievement in ProductionWinner 2013 by Delia ShermanAudie Award for Children's Titles for Ages 8-12Finalist 2014Keeping Hope Alive by Dr. Hawa AbdiAudie Award for Faith-Based Fiction and NonfictionWinner METAtropolis: Green Space by Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Seanan McGuire, Tobias S. Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Ken ScholesAudie Award for Original WorkFinalist 2015Prepared for a Purpose by Antoinette TuffAudie Award for Faith-Based Fiction and NonfictionFinalist Revolution by Deborah WilesAudie Award for Distinguished Achievement in ProductionFinalist 201728: Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles R. Smith Jr.Audie Award for Young Listeners' TitleWinner Another Brooklyn (2016) by Jacqueline WoodsonAudie Award for Best Female NarratorFinalist New York 2140 by Kim Stanley RobinsonAudie Award for Excellence in ProductionFinalist Audie Award for Science FictionFinalist Barracoon (2018) by Zora Neale Hurston with Deborah G. Plant (Ed.)Audie Award for Best Female NarratorFinalist Charlotte's Web (1952) by E. B. WhiteAudie Award for Middle Grade TitleWinner (2021) by Dawnie WaltonAudie Award for FictionWinner

"Best of" lists YearAudiobookListRef.2008Brother, I'm Dying (2007) by Edwidge DanticatAudioFile Best of Biography & Memoir 201628: Moments in Black History that Changed the World by Charles R. Smith Jr.AudioFile Best of Children 2017American StreetAudioFile Best of Young Adult (2017) by N. K. JemisinAudioFile Best of Science Fiction & Fantasy 2018Barracoon (2018) by Zora Neale Hurston with Deborah G. Plant (Ed.)AudioFile Best of Biography & Memoir 2020Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020) by Isabel WilkersonAudioFile Best of Nonfiction & Culture When Stars are Scattered (2020) by Victoria Jamieson and Omar MohamedAudioFile Best of Children Just As I Am (2020) by Cicely Tyson and Michelle BurfordAudioFile Best of Memoir