Robin Moten

Creative Nonfiction Editor

Robin Moten (known to loved ones as Robbie) has recently been busy forming a non-profit to keep her busy in retirement and writing a bit of creative non-fiction for her Substack page, Believe in Kids. She is an English teacher at Seaholm High School in Birmingham, Michigan where she has been teaching for 30 years, and has developed curriculum and taught everything from Notes from Underground to Citizen Kane to There Are No Children Here. Her chapter “Opening the Proverbial Can O’ Worms: Teaching Social Justice to Educated Elites in Suburban Detroit” appears in Anti-Oppressive Education in “Elite” Schools: Promising Practices and Cautionary Tales From the Field edited by Katy Swalwell and Daniel Spikes. Robin earned a B.A. in Communications from Michigan State University, did English course work at Wayne State University, has an M.A. in Education from Michigan State and an Ed.M. in Education Psychology from Harvard University. She loves sports (particularly baseball), discussing politics, playing classic video games, and hanging out with her dog Scout.