Sean David Robinson

SEAN DAVID ROBINSON is a novelist and playwright whose work blends the eerie and the elegiac, exploring liminal spaces between the seen and unseen. A native of North Carolina, he began writing for the stage before turning to fiction; his off-Broadway play Starbright (2018) received two regional theatre awards for new writing.

In 2022, he joined StoryStudio Chicago's Novel in a Year cohort, where he spent two years developing The Door in Penrose Forest, his debut novel of speculative upmarket fiction—a haunting exploration of time, family, and the strange architecture of grief. His primary literary influences are the works of David Mitchell, Margaret Atwood, and Emily St. John Mandel.

Sean lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and fur babies.