Robbi is represented by Selwa Anthony Literary Management and for her painting she is represented by Simon Chan, Art Atrium, Sydney.

Robbi is an Australian award winning artist and writer. She began to write her first book Sunday Best when she was diagnosed with aggressive cancer and she was told she had a 20 percent chance of surviving the next three months of her life. Knowing her youngest children who were three and five wouldn’t remember her if she died, she began to write. That memoir was a winner of the Varuna HarperCollins Manuscript Award. The memoir  Sunday Best was published in 2004 and Women’s Weekly wrote – “One of the best books of the year – I devoured it in two days.”  

She is now the author of 5 books.

After letting life generally get in the way Robbi returned to painting in 2020 under the carport and in that year was a finalist in the prestigious 66th Blake Prize, the Lethbridge Landscape Small Scale Art Award and in 2022 the Ravenswood Prize for Women and in 2024 was a finalist in the Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing.

Of her book, The Secret World Of Connie Starr best selling and acclaimed author Karen Brooks wrote, ‘Connie Starr will set the literary firmament ablaze.’

Robbi is a lover of cheese, all cheese, any cheese, Wes Anderson films, Blues Music especially Led Zeppelin,  dirty gin martini’s  and more cheese.

She lives in Ballarat, Victoria.

Her books are published by HarperCollins and are available in bookshops and as ebooks and audio