Robin McGrath
Box 862,
Station CGoose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador Canada, A0P 1C0 Tel: 709-896-7213 Robin McGrath was born in Newfoundland in 1949, one of the famous "castor oil babies" of the anti-confederate movement. She took her PhD at the University of Western Ontario, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta where she specialized in Canadian, Aboriginal, and Children's Literature. Robin is a poet, novelist, essayist, and occasional radio broadcaster. She is a member of the Writers' Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and The Writers' Union of Canada, and she serves on the Editorial Board of Them Days Magazine and the Editorial Board of Killick Press. The author of several hundred articles, newspaper columns, and reviews, Robin's work has appeared in countries such as Finland, Denmark, Sweden, the United States, Ireland, and Inner Mongolia, as well as Canada. She has won numerous literary awards including the Henry Fuerstenberg Poetry Prize and the Geldert Medal. Robin lives in Goose Bay, Labrador, with her husband, Judge John Joy. PublicationsSalt Fish and Schmattes: A History of the Jews of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1760Creative Press, 2006 Covenant of Salt (poetry) Killick Press, March 2005 Nursery Rhymes of Newfoundland and Labrador Boulder Publications, 2004 Gone to the Ice (young adult novel) Jesperson Press, 2002 Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (with Anne Compton, Laurence Hutchman and Ross Leckie) Goose Lane, 2002 Donovan's Station (novel) Killick Press, 2002 Hoist Your Sails and Run (young adult novel) Tuckamore Press, 1999 Escaped Domestics (poetry) Killick Press, l998 A Heritage Guide to Torbay Oceanside Press, 1997 A Heritage Guide to Portugal Cove - St. Philip's Oceanside Press, 1996 Trouble and Desire (short fiction) Killick Press, l995 |