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Robyn Michele Levy is a Canadian artist, broadcaster and writer. Her memoir, Most of Me, was shortlisted for the 2012 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

Levy's artwork appeared started appearing in art shows in 1983. In a 2011 interview in the Jewish Independent Levy described listening to CBC Radio as she worked in her studio. One of her favourite radio shows encouraged listeners to submit their own stories. After her first submission was accepted she became a regular freelance broadcaster.

In 2007, when she was 43 years old, Levy learned she had symptoms of early-onset Parkinson Disease, and, six months later, received a cancer diagnosis.

In 2011 Levy published Most of Me. Commentators remark on the surprising humour she brought to her shocking diagnoses.