Robison Wells

Robison Wells is the author of the YA science-fiction thriller, Variant (HarperTeen 2011), and of Feedback (HarperTeen, Oct 2012). Variant was named as one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2011, and one of the YALSA Picks for Reluctant Readers. Robison began writing professionally (and poorly) as the theater critic (live theater, not film) for Red Magazine, an arts weekly at the University of Utah, in 1999. He started writing his first novel shortly thereafter, and it was terrible.

His first published novel, On Second Thought, was released in 2004 through a regional press. That book was a romantic comedy based on a small town in New Mexico where he lived for about a year. He followed that book with two more, Wake Me When It’s Over and The Counterfeit, both political thrillers and both attempts to use his poli-sci degree for something. And, when he graduated in 2009 with the stock market at record lows, and he once again couldn’t find a job, he spent his unemployment writing Variant. He has been writing fulltime since 2011.