A graduate of Columbia University, where she specialized in early modern English literature, Sal Robinson worked in publishing for ten years as an editor for international literature at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Melville House. She received her MLIS from Long Island University in 2015 and worked as an archivist and cataloger for a number of New York arts and cultural organizations, including PEN America, the American Academy in Rome, the Keith Haring Foundation, and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. She is now the Lucy Ricciardi Assistant Curator in the Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum.