Robin Talley

Robin Talley is an American author of young adult books.

Talley has worked as a communications strategist for nonprofit organizations "focusing on educational equity, gay rights, women's rights, and beyond". Her novels feature racially diverse and LGBTQ+ characters.

Awards Talley won the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour for her first novel, Lies We Tell Ourselves, in 2014; the same novel was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Lambda Literary Award.

Her second novel, What We Left Behind, was included on the American Library Association's Rainbow List.

Her third novel, As I Descended, was shortlisted for the 2016 Kirkus Prize.