Robotham, Rosemarie

Rosemarie Robotham is an editor-at-large at "Essence" magazine. A former reporter for "Life" magazine, she is the coauthor of "Spirits of the Passage: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Seventeenth Century." Her story "Jesse" appeared in John Henrik Clarke's "Black American Stories: One Hundred Years of the Best, " and she edited the recent anthology "The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love." She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.