Join Newnan, GA Art Rez resident, author Caitlin McGill, at the Newnan Carnegie Library on July 22nd at 2:30pm. Listen to her read from her upcoming 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. One essay from her book was named a Notable in The Best American Essays 2016.
Caitlin McGill’s work appears in Blackbird, The Chattahoochee Review, CutBank, Gastronomica, Indiana Review, Iron Horse, The Los Angeles Review, McSweeney's, The Southeast Review, Vox, War, Literature, & the Arts, and other publications. She is 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 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts 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—a non-profit 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.
You can find her on Twitter @caitlindmcgill, or at caitlinmcgill.com.
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