rooms we love: @cynthiarobinson2605

So pleased to invite everyone in and contribute some content while Katy is recuperating! This is my room; this is where I live. Living room, writing room, reading room, all in one, where I spend most of my waking hours, with my characters and my books and my sentences and my imagination.

And my class prep when I’m teaching, and my two very spoiled pet rabbits, always (not pictured, but they are co-authors of my Instagram page @cynthiarobinson2605 ). 

*We had to include a picture of her Rabbits because they are so darn cute!

I love old things. Books, lamps, settees, ceramics. White rooms terrify me, I cannot do minimal. I admire all y’all who can of course, those pics on Instagram are some of my guiltiest eye candy, but I know better than to try that at home! In my world, more is more. I need dark wood and rich fabrics and book spines embossed in gold. Lots of each, please, and a few book jackets designed by Vanessa Bell. An overflowing bookshelf organized purely by gut instinct, books findable by touch and memory.

All is not sturm und drang, though—my house is tiny enough that, when seated at my desk, I can glance to my left and glimpse the front patio garden through the kitchen window. Look to the right and my small deck is a riot of clematis and geraniums, birds and butterflies, a strip of woods (my writer brain loves those) beginning not 100 yards away.

Cynthia teaches medieval and Islamic art history at Cornell University; her first novel, Birds of Wonder, was published by Standing Stone Press in 2018; she is now finishing a second. www.cynthiarobinsonbooks.com