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Robyn Harding grew up in Quesnel, British Columbia. As a child, she read voraciously: Nancy Drew books, Archie Comics, anything to do with horses, and for a while, for some morbid reason, stories of shark attacks. This love of books led to a passion for writing – and prescription glasses by the time she was nine.  

Naturally, Robyn’s greatest dream was to publish a novel, preferably while still in her teens like S.E. Hinton. The timing didn’t quite work out. After high school, Robyn studied English literature and journalism, which somehow led her into the world of advertising. After seven years in the business, she left to become a freelance copywriter and raise her two young children. It was then that she revisited her first love, fiction. Despite the lengthy detour, she was still thrilled when she had her first book published, The Journal of Mortifying Moments, in 2004. 

After writing four adult novels (The Journal of Mortifying Moments, The Secret Desires of a Soccer Mom, Unravelled and Chronicles of a Midlife Crisis), Robyn decided to revisit the teen years with My Parents Are Sex Maniacs (2009). She drew from her own experiences as a teenager: the insecurities, the struggle to fit in, and the utter embarrassment at even having parents, let alone ones who have sex lives. When Robyn was thirteen years old, her mom got pregnant. “I thought my mom’s pregnancy was like advertising to the world that she still had sex!” she says. “I didn’t even think about the fact I’d be getting a baby brother out of the deal.”

Robyn now lives in Vancouver where she writes fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. She is married and has a son and a daughter. She promises that she won’t embarrass them by getting pregnant when they are teenagers.