Caitlin McGill
Fairfield, IA
Nonfiction
Caitlin McGill is nonfiction writer and educator from Miami, FL, at work on a coming-of-age memoir. Her essays can be found in Blackbird, The Chattahoochee Review, Consequence, CutBank, Gastronomica, Indiana Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Los Angeles Review, McSweeney’s, The Southeast Review, Vox, War, Literature, & the Arts, and elsewhere. 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 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 the literary arts for unheard and under-resourced communities—including those isolated by the challenges of racism, addiction recovery, trauma, poverty, disability, and mental illness. Three of her essays have been named Notables in The Best American Essays series.