Robin Blackburn McBride is an author and coach in human potential. Her self-help eBook, Birdlight: Freeing Your Authentic Creativity, became an Amazon Best Seller in 2016, and has since been released in paperback and as an audio book. For twenty years Robin was a full-time teacher at Branksome Hall in Toronto. In 2002 Guernica published a collection of her poetry, In Green. She has also worked as a stage actress, and holds degrees in Drama, English, and Education from the University of Toronto. The Shining Fragments is her first novel.