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Robin McLean

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Robin McLean was a lawyer and then a potter for 15 years in the woods of Alaska before receiving her MFA at UMass Amherst in Massachusetts. Her first short story collection Reptile House won the 2013 BOA Editions Fiction Prize. The collection was also a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Story Prize in 2011 and 2012. McLean’s stories have appeared widely in such places as The Cincinnati Review, Green Mountains Review, The Western Humanities Review,The Carolina Quarterly, The Nashville Review, The Malahat Review, Gargoyle, The Common, and Copper Nickel, and others.

A figure skater first—having learned to skate and walk at the same time—McLean believes that crashing on ice prepared her for writing fiction. Besides writing, her careers a ...more

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"Cold Snap" in PANORAMA

Thanks to the editors at Panorama: The Journal of Travel Place and Nature for republishing one of my favorite stories, "Cold Snap" in their hot-off-the-presses issue on Ecology. It's both an amusing story (I think) and not very funny (you'll see). Put a sweater on before read it.

Thanks especially to Nicolas Sampson for recruiting my work for this wonderful new journal, and also, in general, for h

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	Pity the Beast 3.18 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing 3.29 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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