Robbi Sommers Bryant is an award-winning author and professional editor with more than fourteen years of experience helping writers shape powerful, psychologically resonant stories. Known for her intuitive understanding of character, emotional depth, and narrative tension, she works collaboratively with authors to strengthen voice, structure, and thematic cohesion—while preserving the authenticity of the writer’s vision.
Her award-winning body of work includes seven novels, five short-story collections, and a book of poetry. Her fiction spans psychological suspense, dark literary fiction, and surreal drama, including The Beautiful Evil, the haunting novella Dream, The Darkness, and the forthcoming Last Breath. Her stories and essays have appeared in Reader’s Digest, Redbook, Penthouse, international journals, college textbooks, and literary anthologies.
Her writing continues to draw national and international attention:
• Dream won the 2025 Screenplay Adaptation Award from the PageTurner Awards.
• The Darkness previously won adaptation rights and is currently in film development.
Robbi’s nonfiction essay “A Victim’s Revenge”—chronicling her confrontation with the man who assaulted her—was optioned twice for television’s Movie of the Week, and she discussed the experience on The Jane Whitney Show.
A past president of the 350-member Redwood Writers, Robbi has been honored with both the prestigious Jack London Award and the Helen Barham Service Award for her contributions to the literary community. As editor-in-chief of the anthology REDEMPTION: Stories from the Edge (2018), she oversaw every stage of its development and publication.
In addition to her writing, Robbi works professionally as a developmental, content, and copy editor, as well as a writing coach, where she shares her fierce love of story and her belief in the transformative power of narrative.
Her work explores obsession, identity, trauma, desire, and the shadow selves we carry—stories that move through darkness toward the most human parts of who we are.
Find out more at robbibryant.com
