Born in Washington DC and raised in the Mississippi Delta, Kathleen Robbins received her BA from Millsaps College and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. Her photographs have been exhibited widely in venues such as the Kohler Art Center, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Addison Gallery of Art, New Orleans Photo Alliance, Light Factory Museum of Contemporary Photography & Film, Rayko Gallery, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Her work has been featured by NPR’s picture show blog, CNN, PDN’s photo of the day, Flak Photo, Fraction, the Design Observer, Oxford American, Garden & Gun, and One One Thousand. In 2012, she was part of the Critical Mass top 50 and she was the recipient of the 2011 PhotoNOLA Review Prize. She currently resides in Columbia, SC, where she is an associate professor of art, coordinator of the photography program and affiliate faculty of southern studies at the University of South Carolina.