Mike Robbins is a second year candidate in Iowa State University’s Creative Writing and Environment MFA program. He studied English Literature at Western Connecticut State University and spent two years after college serving as an AmeriCorps member at education related nonprofits in New Haven, CT and Washington, DC. Before arriving in Iowa with the hip and ankle problems that corroborate his former passion for skateboarding, he lived and worked in Washington, DC as a grant writer. He is currently at work on a collection of short stories.