Eden Robins is the author of the novel When Franny Stands Up, which was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Reader and a best queer book of 2022 by Autostraddle. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Slate, USA Today, LA Review of Books, Catapult, and others. She is currently a school crossing guard, and previously, she sold sex toys, crafted jokes for Big Pharma, and wrote cognitive behavioral therapy for an AI chatbot. She lives in Chicago, has been to the bottom of the ocean, and will never go to space.
""An engrossing tale...Though no single life is told in full detail, the collective narrative that results, in Robins's ambitious project, is moving and grand."" -- Esquire ""Clever, genre-bending...Ms. Robins has clearly enjoyed herself designing this vast network of connections, which often resembles the art installations it commemorates, full of patterns and puzzles and messages. Its excess and energy make it less a memento mori than a reminder, spelled out in boldface, of the remarkable tenacity of life."" -- Wall Street Journal ""Kaleidoscopic...a fascinating and fresh reading experience."" -- Chicago Reader ""A joyously enlivening masterpiece...Eden Robins could have the singular bestseller of the year."" -- Shelf Awareness, G.L.O.W. ""Robins infuses her stories with the kind of lived-in, unremarkable reality that more traditional science fiction narratives often struggle to impart...Original and thoughtful, refreshing despite the constant centrality of death, this is highly recommended."" -- Locus Magazine ""Provocative...an intriguing read for those who enjoy SF and innovative storytelling."" -- Booklist ""A bold structure, wonderful errantry, and a unique imagination mark Eden Robins's new novel, Remember You Will Die--a compilation of obituaries whose impact is greater than the sum of its parts."" -- Jeffrey Ford, author of The Shadow Year ""Eden Robins's Remember You Will Die transcends its ingenious obituary form. It becomes a murder mystery of portraits, a eulogy of the everyday moments that make up epic lives, a web of the important ways we intersect and influence one another beyond our knowing. It handles the morbid and the macabre with admirable compassion and humor. I loved every page."" -- Jac Jemc, author of Empty Theatre and The Grip of It ""In Eden Robins' eerie and poignant Remember You Will Die, we follow an AI woman, Peregrine, as she attempts to understand what happened to her human child. Did she die? Did she disappear? And what does it mean to die, to disappear? Peregrine learns what it means to grieve as she travels all of history via a cache of obituaries and etymologies, searching for clues about her child. By the end, I was gobsmacked, awed. Eden Robins has given us an instant classic."" -- Lindsay Hunter, author of Hot Springs Drive ""An audacious and unforgettable tale that reminds us what the novel can do, Remember You Will Die captures the exhilaration, heartbreak, and passion of a life fully lived."" -- Stephanie Feldman, author of Saturnalia ""Emotionally powerful, witty, and razor sharp, Remember You Will Die is unlike anything you've read before. Eden Robins has created a new epistolary literary form, one custom made for our dark times. It feels both dystopian and full of hope, classic and groundbreaking, and it will leave you changed. Brilliant."" -- Ann Dávila Cardinal, author of We Need No Wings