Breaking Boundaries

by Caitlin McGill

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This piece is part of our Winter 2023 print issue, available for purchase here.

Caitlin McGill

Caitlin McGill’s essays and flash fiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Crab Orchard Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Short, Fast, and Deadly, The Southeast Review, and elsewhere. She has won a 2016 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award in Literature, a 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarship, and the 2014 Rafael Torch Nonfiction Literary Award. She is working on a memoir in essays, one of which, “Silent Interrogations,” was named a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2016. Learn more at caitlinmcgill.com.

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