Sherry Robinson has been a New Mexico journalist for 30 years and worked for 10 newspapers and two television stations. She now operates two writing businesses, Sherry Robinson Writing Services and a small syndicate, New Mexico News Services LLC, which provides opinion columns for New Mexico newspapers. Her work has earned awards from nine communications organizations, including NFPW.

A Denver native and graduate of the University of New Mexico, Robinson began her career in 1975 as the Navajo Nation stringer for the Gallup Independent. She later worked as assistant business editor at the Albuquerque Journal and editor of the New Mexico Business Weekly. She was science writer at the University of New Mexico, editing the award-winning research magazine, Quantum.

In between salaried positions, Robinson has had long stints as a freelance writer and photographer. Currently she focuses her expertise in business and economic development, writes Web site copy, newsletters and internal reports, and ghost writes op-eds and a book. Her interest in history paid off recently in a contract with the city of Albuquerque to edit materials for the city's Tricentennial celebration.

Robinson has authored two books: Apache Voices and El Malpais, Mount Taylor and the Zuni Mountains, both published by UNM Press, and is working on a third book. She has been a member of the speaker's bureau for the New Mexico Humanities Council since 1999.

In 2002 Robinson was an honorary commander at Kirtland Air Force Base. In 1997 she received a Woman on the Move award from the YWCA in Albuquerque. The U.S. Small Business Administration named her New Mexico Media Advocate of the Year in 1989. She was a Woman of Achievement for New Mexico Press Women in 1980 and a runnerup that year for NFPW's Communicator of Achievement.