Robin Caudell

Born and raised on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Robin Caudell is of Nanticoke and enslaved people of African descent at Wye House, Talbot County. She holds a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland at College Park and an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. An award-winning journalist and videographer, she has been a Staff Writer at the Press-Republican since 1990.

An essay, The Gift That Calls Us Home, by Rebecca Johns-Hackett and edited by Robin, will appear in the forthcoming essay collection, We Hold In Our Hands: Black History Artifacts in Baltimore and Beyond, published by Johns Hopkins University Press. A poem, Delilah's End-Time Song, was anthologized in The Power of the Feminine 'I' edited by Christal Ann Rice Cooper and Thresh Press Publisher Donna Biffar, January 2024. A poem, Promise Please, was anthologized in Peregrine Volume XXXV: Black Poets Speak by Amherst Writers & Artists Press, 2021.

Furious Flower Poetry Center, Furious Flower IV/James Madison University, Panel: "Poetics & Politics of the Unspoken: Mental Health, Trauma, & Resilience," with Robin Caudell, Teri Elam, Yona Harvey and moderator Amber Flora Thomas, September 2024. For the third consecutive year, she will lead Adirondack Vagabonding, A Slow Journaling Worship for Xperience for All hosted by the Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake in September 2024. Robin led a poetry workshop, "Creating in the Company of Wild Irises" for the Clemmons Family Farm, Inc. in Charlotte, VT in June 2023.

Robin is a Cave Canem alumna and served as an Adirondack Center for Writing instructor at FCI Ray Brook for eight years. She was also a counselor/writer for the summer-writing program of the National Book Foundation at Bennington College for five years. She also participated in the Literacy Volunteers of Clinton County as a writing instructor and an ESL tutor.

A United States Air Force and Cold War Veteran, she served from 1986-1990 and rose to the rank of Sgt. and was the 1989 John L. Levitow Honor Graduate from NCO Leadership School. Robin is a founding member of the Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum and was the recipient of the 2022 Clinton County Women of Distinction, Military Service Award presented by NYS Assemblyman Billy Jones (D-Chateaugay).

An avid genealogist and a vetted Underground Railroad researcher/presenter for more than 20 years, she is a National Association for Interpretation Certified Tour Guide and a Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway Certified Tour Guide. She is also a Founding Board Trustee and a Docent/Event Planner/Grant Writer for the North Country Underground Railroad Historical Association/North Star Museum at Ausable Chasm, Essex County, NY. She is the director/screenwriter for Witness Tree At Union Road, a documentary in collaboration with Skidmore College.