Robin A Kirk has published three nonfiction books on human rights as well as essays, articles, short stories, and opeds. Her book for children, Righting Wrongs: 20 Human Rights Heroes Around the World, won the 2023 Foreward Reviews Silver medal for children’s nonfiction. Kirk writes fiction and is the author of The Bond, The Hive Queen, and The Mother’s Wheel (2022), an award-winning young adult fantasy trilogy. Her short stories have appeared in “The Saturday Evening Post” and “Luna Station Quarterly.” She co-edits The World Reader series at Duke University Press and coedited the inaugural book, The Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Kirk directs the Human Rights Certificate offered by the Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute, where she was the founding director. She is a Professor of the Practice in Cultural Anthropology. She is a founding member of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, where she continues to serve on the board. As a senior researcher, Kirk authored, co-authored and edited over twelve reports for Human Rights Watch from 1992-2004, all available online. What unites her work is a passionate interest in human rights and the importance of challenging books, including for young readers.