About the Author

Hi! I’m Michael Robinson, but I go by M. Nathan Robinson for my fictional writing to distinguish myself from my day-job persona as mild-mannered marketing guy (not true – I can be quite volatile). I have been writing corporate copy for years, so I was as shocked as anyone to find a fictional story growing in my head. In fact, I’ve never been a strong reader and certainly not one for fiction. I blame my self-diagnosed ADD and dyslexia (convenient eh?), and although I know it’s frowned-upon, I do find writing and reading to be less related than most.

I’m from New Jersey, grew up in Montreal and now live in the Philadelphia burbs. I speak broken Quebecois french and break it out once in a while to confuse my friends and annoy my wife and children. I used to play a lot of basketball, but now I play a lot of tennis, and my goal is to marry my love of trash-talking with my talent for drop-shotting sixty-somethings who can’t move anymore.

I am fascinated by psychology and human relationships–especially the dysfunctional kind. I love picking apart and laying bare the passive aggressiveness, the anxiety, the self-doubt and mistrust that underpin life. I like to write about family, workplace and marital drama–the sort everyone can relate to. There is so much juicy tension in describing what people are thinking and how it differs from what they say–people struggling to portray themselves as something they’re not, and perhaps even lying to their own faces– stories about hidden motives, maneuvering and manipulation, not in the service of some intriguing political plot or high-stakes heroic tale, but in simple, common, everyday interaction.

RIFT is my first completed work, a short novel, which I published in 2021. I am currently working on the sequel (working title REALM) as well as some short stories. Thanks for being here and stay tuned!