Robyn Maynard

Robyn Maynard is a Canadian writer focusing on race and gender-based state violence.^[1][2]

She is most noted^{[according to whom?]} for her 2017 book Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present,^[3] which received praise in some Canadian publications^[4][5] and achieved several awards and nominations.^[6][7][8][9] Alongside Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Maynard also co-authored the 2022 book Rehearsals for Living, which was shortlisted in the 2022 Governor General's Awards.^[10] She has also produced scholarly publications on the topic of race and police abolition.^[11][12]

In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers.^[13]