Name: Robyn Schneider
Hometown: Orange County, California
School: Barnard College, Columbia University
Graduating: December 2008
Major: English, Creative Writing Program & Pre-Med
- Scriba Emeritus, Philolexian Society of Columbia University
- Editor, Columbia University Journal of Bioethics
- student theater/stand-up shows
- Young Adult and Middle Grade novelist (see additional notes)
- Associate Editor, IvyGate
So I wrote these books a few years ago, Better Than Yesterday and The Social Climber’s Guide To High School, and reviewers generally didn’t hate them, and ABC Family bought the TV/Film rights, even though I was just a know-nothing college kid. Back then, my whole life was about writing. I even dropped out of college for a year to be a novelist. And then everything changed.
I fell in love, spent time in the Israeli desert, traipsed through Europe, decided to become a doctor, went back to college, became a stand up comedian, developed a shameful crush on organic chemistry, did a lot of college theater, wrote a couple novels, worked in a hospital pharmacy, downloaded a million episodes of Doctor Who, bought a pink mountain bike, joined a fencing academy, and applied to a master’s program in biomedical ethics.
My life is absolutely absurd, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
