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Robin Babb

Robin Babb is an MFA student in creative nonfiction at the University of New Mexico. Her work has appeared in phoebe, New Mexico Magazine, Conceptions Southwest, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a collection of essays.

Far Corners Folio

Winter 2025

The Iron Lung

By Robin Babb

The Kenyon Review · “The Iron Lung” by Robin Babb I started taking a mixed martial arts class, or MMA, at my university this semester. I’d been wanting to take […]