Roy Robbins is an author and poet from Cumberland County, Virginia. He studied poetry with James Dickey at University of South Carolina. Robbins also extensively studied theatre in New York, as well as literature at the University of Virginia. He has worked with a renowned playwriting group in Charlottesville, Virginia. One such plays was awarded a place in the London Festival of New Plays. Another was produced and performed in Providence, Rhode Island. Robbins also participated in a joint presentation of poems at the Hill Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. This effort was aided by the renowned landscape painter, Lindsay Nolting. published poems in journals such as "The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review" and "The Southern Poetry Review." A collection of Robbins' poetry, "Poster Art Nights", was published in 2015.