Robin Gaby Fisher

Robin Gaby Fisher is a news feature writer for The Star-Ledger in Newark, New Jersey's largest daily newspaper. She specializes in telling stories about regular people living through extraordinary circumstances. Her series "After the Fire," about two students who were critically burned in the Seton Hall dormitory fire, was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. Little Brown is publishing the book in August 2008.

In 2004 her series "Last Chance High," about a special school for troubled teens, was also a finalist for a Pulitzer. The series received the Nieman Foundation's 2005 Taylor Family Award for Fairness in Newspapers. Robin was part of the Star-Ledger team that won the 2005 Pulitizer Prize for breaking news.

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