Her novel Son of a Trickster (2017) is a humorous coming of age novel and the first of a trilogy. In her third book, Blood Sports (2006), also a novel, Robinson returns to the characters and urban terrain of her novella "Contact Sports," from Traplines. Monkey Beach was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award, and received the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The book is both a mystery and a spiritual journey, combining contemporary realism with Haisla mysticism. It is set in Kitamaat territory and follows a teenage girl's search for answers to and understanding of her younger brother's disappearance at sea while in the retrospective, it tells a story about growing up on a Haisla reserve. Her second book, Monkey Beach (2000), is a novel. Another of her short stories, " Terminal Avenue", (which was not included in Traplines) was published in the anthology of postcolonial science fiction and fantasy So Long Been Dreaming.
One of the stories, "Queen of the North", was also published in The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women. The collection won Britain's Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for the best regional work by a Commonwealth writer. The young narrators recount haunting tales of their disturbing relationships with sociopaths and psychopaths. Robinson's first book, Traplines (1995), was a collection of four short stories. In 2019, Robinson was diagnosed with polymyalgia rheumatica. In 2003, Robinson moved back to Kitamaat Village to care for her father who had been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease in 1998. She received a BA from the University of Victoria and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her sister, Carla Robinson, is a television journalist for CBC Newsworld.
Life Childhood īorn in Kitamaat, British Columbia, she is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. She is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations. Eden Victoria Lena Robinson (born 19 January 1968) is an Indigenous Canadian author.
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