Brief Author Bio:

Robyn Ringler is a writer, lawyer, nurse and the owner of East Line Books in Clifton Park. Her articles have been published in the Albany Times Union, Newark Star-Ledger and have been sent out over the New York Times wire. Robyn's Letter to Al Pacino appears in Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present edited by Lisa Grunwald and Stephen J. Adler, published by Dial Press. Her essay Dissection was recently published in Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies, edited by Sayantani DasGupta and Marsha Hurst, published by the Kent State University Press. She writes regularly for Nursing Spectrum and has read her essays on WAMC's The Round Table and NPR's The Health Show and 51%, as well as Martha Stewart Radio.