Science Fiction & Fantasy
by Arley Sorg
Before Kelly Robson was a celebrated science fiction writer, she competed in rodeos, and was even a rodeo princess. “I like to say that being a rodeo princess is like having all the glamour and none of the responsibility. Also to be clear, this isn’t a beauty contest it’s a riding contest.” Robson was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up in Hinton, Alberta, just east of the Canadian Rockies.
Even as a kid Robson had the writing bug: She wrote a horse book called
Born Wild in fifth grade, and in sixth grade she wrote a one-act play based on C. S. Lewis’