Biography

Raleigh Robinson is a writer and photographer who resides in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Robinson's works have been exhibited and published in literary journals in over a dozen venues in the United States and China. For two decades her work in progress, titled "The Spiritually Dedicated," took her all over asia and includes an extensive body of work in a Thai orphanage. After completing the advanced non-fiction class of U.S.C.'s Master of Professional Writing program, Ms. Robinson was a guest lecturer at Hangzhou University in the Zhjiang province of China. She spoke on American women and their choices.

Understanding the camera and appreciating the challenges it can present, Raleigh came up with a concept. She dispensed disposable cameras to cancer survivors and their children as a tool to encourage creative expression. Once free of the concern over technical mishaps, the artists learned to trust their vision. With continued belief that the human spirit can transcend any difficulty when encouraged, Ms. Robinson has personalized her mentoring to include one day seminars and an ongoing individualized project for women and teens who want to morph into their creative voice. Remembering that Morpheus was the Greek god of dreams.

Raleigh has been a facilitator at the We Spark foundation and continues to find inspiration in speaking, teaching, writing and paricipating in all venues of poetry. A member of the Academy of American Poets, she will continue to organize and emcee public poetry readings. In October, 1999 she met with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. This event cemented her life long philosophy, that the spiritual and creative are inseparable and constantly unfolding.