“Even if one does not know the history, one feels the presence of the past.” ~Peter Balakian “You have to beat the eg…
Caitlin McGill
Caitlin McGill’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, The Chattahoochee Review, Consequence, CutBank, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Southeast Review, Vox, War, Literature, & the Arts, and several other magazines. Her writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers’ conference, The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, The Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is also a 2019 Somerville Arts Council Grant recipient, 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.