Robert Repino grew up in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania. After serving in the Peace Corps (Grenada 2000–2002), he earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Emerson College.

His debut novel Mort(e), a science fiction story about a war between animals and humans, was published by Soho Press in 2015. Mort(e) is the first book in the War With No Name Series, which includes D’Arc, Culdesac, and Malefactor.

His first novel for middle grade readers is Spark and the League of Ursus, part of a two-book series published by Quirk Books.

His novella Leap High Yahoo was published as an Amazon Kindle Single.

Repino is the pitcher for the Oxford University Press softball team and quarterback for the flag football team, but his business card says that he’s an Editor. He also occasionally teaches for Gotham Writers Workshop.