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About Caitlin

Caitlin McGill’s work appears in Blackbird, The Chattahoochee Review, Gastronomica, Iron Horse, The Los Angeles Review, McSweeney's, Vox, and others. She was a finalist for the 2021 Chautauqua Janus Prize, and winner of the 2020 Indiana Review Creative Nonfiction Prize and the 2014 Crab Orchard Review Rafael Torch Nonfiction Award. She has been a writer-in-residence at the The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Newnan ArtRez, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and is a 2016 St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award winner. She has also received scholarships and grants from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Emerson College, and the Somerville Arts Council. A resident of Lynn, MA, she teaches at Emerson College, GrubStreet, and Harvard University, and is a workshop facilitator for Writers Without Margins. She’s writing a Miami-based, coming-of-age memoir about hiding the truth, for six years, about her abusive, drug-addled relationship with an older man and his tenuous tether to reality. Two essays from her book were named Notables in The Best American Essays series. You can find her on Twitter @caitlindmcgill, or at caitlinmcgill.com. For more information please visit caitlinmcgill.com & follow her on Twitter @caitlindmcgill.