Caitlin McGill’s work has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ conference, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, The Chattahoochee Review, Consequence, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Southeast Review, Vox, War, Literature, & the Arts, and several other magazines. She is a 2016 St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award winner and the 2014 winner of Crab Orchard Review’s Rafael Torch Nonfiction Literary Award. She recently completed a memoir about intergenerational trauma, inherited survival mechanisms, immigration, race, class, addiction, mental illness, war, and the cost of ignoring our histories. One essay from her book was named a Notable in The Best American Essays 2016.

More recently, her essay "Window Curtains" was a finalist for the 2018 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction, the 2018 Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize, The Chattahoochee Review's 2018 Lamar York Prize in Nonfiction, and The Southampton Review’s 2018 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize. Her essay “Breaking Boundaries” was also a finalist and Editor’s Pick in Solstice Magazine’s 2017 Summer Contest, and her 2016 essay, “How Much for That Pair of Shoes?” was a finalist in the 2016 Tom Howard/John H. Reid Fiction & Essay Contest. She teaches writing and literature at Emerson College, GrubStreet, and Northeastern University in Boston, MA, and her piece, “I Teach, Therefore I Essay,” was published in Inside Higher Ed in 2017. She has been a writer-in-residence at Ragdale, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Wellspring House, and Art Farm Nebraska, and has received various grants to aid with the completion of her book.

Caitlin is also extremely passionate about her work as a creative writing workshop facilitator for Writers Without Margins, a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding access to literary arts for everyone, including those marginalized, stigmatized, or isolated by the challenges of addiction recovery, disability, trauma, sickness, injury, poverty, and mental illness.

Website: caitlinmcgill.com

Twitter Username: @caitlindmcgill

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in English--Creative Writing from University of Central Florida (May 2012)
• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing--Nonfiction from Emerson College (May 2015)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry