Joy Robinson grew up on her great-grandparent’s homestead farm in the Arkansas’ Ozark Mountains and went to a one-room schoolhouse where she became fascinated with the written word. By the age of 40 she was publishing regularly in the Today section of the Deseret News. In 2002, she won the Sunstone award for Fiction and in 2003, published a book with Joan Oviatt titled Of Angels, Dreams, and other Fine Things.
Married to second husband George Robinson with a combined family of eleven children, the Robinsons have served several missions including the Haskell Indian college in Lawrence, Kansas and Zimbabwe, Africa. In Bangkok, Thailand, Joy and Brother Robinson taught English to teachers in government schools at the request of the governor who was a BYU graduate.
Because of their tremendous love for the people of Zimbabwe, Brother and Sister Robinson began an African Education Fund. Through this fund, several young people have graduated from higher levels of education and three have gone on missions. One especially talented young man is earning his MBA. All profits from Sister Robinson’s writing are contributed to this educational endeavor.
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