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Robyn Meta Herrington
1961 - 2004
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Robyn
Herrington
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Robyn Meta
Herrington, active member of both SFWA and SF Canada, passed away
Monday morning, May 3, 2004, in Calgary, Alberta, after a courageous multi-year
battle with cancer. Robyn's short fiction appeared in such places as On
Spec, Talebones, Adventures of Sword and Sorcery, Parsec,
and in Mike Resnick's DAW Anthologies Return of the Dinosaurs (her first
sale), Women Writing Science Fiction as Men, and New Voices in
Science Fiction; one of her stories was produced by CBC Radio as part of
its Alberta Anthology series. Her genre poetry appeared in Tesseracts
6 and Chiaroscuro, and she was working on a novel.
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Robyn was an acquisitions editor for Edge Science Fiction and
Fantasy, and was instrumental in bringing Australian writer K. A. Bedford's
first novel, Orbital Burn, to market. Robyn was a beloved mainstay of
Calgary's SF&F workshop, the Imaginative Fiction Writers Association, where she
was known for insightful, compassionately presented critiques. She was also a
frequent member of the committee for Con-Version, Calgary's annual SF
convention (including in 2002, when Con-Version was the CanVention--the
Canadian National Science Fiction Convention), and was often involved with the
con's writers' workshop and annual short-story contest.
Robyn was born in Melbourne in 1961, and grew up in Elizabeth Fields, South
Australia; she moved to Calgary 25 years ago. She was employed as a graphics
designer by the University of Calgary (and edited the publication New
Currents In Teaching Technology there). She was also an accomplished glass
blower, and an inveterate traveler.
Robyn had time to draft her own eulogy before passing, to be read at her
funeral, at her request, by her friend and mentor, Robert J. Sawyer.
Robyn is survived by her husband Bruce Herrington, universally known in
Calgary as "the wonder spouse," her parents, and sister Sandy VanDamme.
Obituary prepared by Robert J. Sawyer |
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