Robin McLean was a lawyer then a potter for fifteen years in the woods of Alaska before leaving to pursue her MFA at UMass Amherst in Massachusetts. Her first collection, Reptile House, was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Story Prize in 2011 and 2012. McLean’s stories have appeared widely in such places as Western Humanities Review, Cincinnati Review, Carolina Quarterly, Nashville Review, Malahat Review, Gargoyle, The Common, and Copper Nickel, as well as the anthology American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers. She currently teaches at Clark University and splits her time between Newfound Lake in Bristol, New Hampshire, and a 200-year-old farm in western Massachusetts.
