Author Robin McLean has several events coming up around New England, including a reading at Bank Square Books in Mystic!
Robin McLean is one of four sisters who all followed their mother attending Mount Holyoke. After South Hadley she was a lawyer and then a potter for 15 years in the woods of Alaska before receiving her MFA at UMass Amherst. Her debut collection Reptile House won the BOA Editions Fiction Prize in 2013. The collection was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Prize in 2011 and 2012. Her fiction is forthcoming or has appeared in numerous journals including The Cincinnati Review, CARVE, The Carolina Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Green Mountains Review, Copper Nickel, The Common, Malahat Review and Nashville Review, among others. A figure skater first—having learned to skate and walk at the same time—McLean believes crashing on ice prepared her for writing fiction. She teaches at Clark University and splits her time between Newfound Lake in Bristol, New Hampshire and a 200-year-old farm in western Massachusetts, helping with the haunted in the corn maze each fall. For a full schedule, see www.robinmclean.net.