Heather McRobie

Heather Katharine McRobie (born 1985) is a British-Australian writer. She studied Modern History and Politics at Oxford University before going on to pursue further studies at the University of Sarajevo and McGill University. She also worked for human rights NGOs in Jordan and Berlin. As of 2015, she is completing a PhD at Oxford University on the 2011 Arab Spring.

McRobie's debut novel Psalm 119 (2008), published when the author was just 23, was awarded the Helene du Coudray Prize. Her second book Literary Freedom: a Cultural Right to Literature came out in 2013. In a wide-ranging journalistic career, she has written for the Guardian, the New Statesman, the Times Literary Supplement and the Globe and Mail among many other publications. She is also an editor of the online outlet openDemocracy.