Robin McLean

Robin McLean worked as a lawyer and then a potter in the woods of Alaska before turning to writing. Her first story collection Reptile House won the BOA Editions Fiction Prize and was noted as a best book of 2015 in Paris Review. Her debut novel Pity the Beast was noted as a best book of fiction of 2021 in The Guardian and Wall Street Journal, and long-listed for the Reading the West Prize. Her second story collection, Get’em Young, Treat’em Tough, Tell’em Nothing was an Editors’ Choice in the NYTimes, and was longlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize.

She lives on Vancouver Island.