Robyn Gillam lives in Toronto where she has worked as a writer for ten years. She also teaches at York University and has worked at the Royal Ontario Museum. Gillam was born in Australia and graduated from the University of Melbourne with combined honours in ancient history and Indian studies. She also studied Egyptology at University College London and has a doctorate in Near Eastern studies from the University of Toronto. Gillam has written extensively about intersections of art, literature and politics, and was a member of the editorial collective of Border/lines: Canada's Magazine of Cultural Studies, as well a contributing editor to Paragraph: The Ficiton Magazine.