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McGrath, Carmelita

Carmelita McGrath was born in Branch, St. Mary's Bay, in 1960 and continues to live in Newfoundland. Her poetry has been published as Poems on Land and on Water (Killick Press, 1992) and To the New World (Killick Press, 1997), which won the Atlantic Poetry Prize.

Known primarily as a poet, Carmelita McGrath also writes fiction: Walking to Shenak (Killick Press, 1994), Stranger Things Have Happened (Killick Press, 1999) and a children's book, The Dog-Next-Year (Tuckamore Books, 2001). McGrath's short-story collection won the Writers' Alliance/Bennington Gate Newfoundland Book Award and was short-listed for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.

Carmelita McGrath is also the author of a fictional memoir To Be My Father's Daughter (2008), written from the perspective of Camilla Coaker, the daughter of Sir William Coaker. Three short stories by Carmelita McGrath appear in the anthology EarLit Shorts 1.

Titles written by Carmelita McGrath:

EarLit Shorts 1 Joel Thomas Hynes, Carmelita McGrath and Kathleen Winter	Revenants by Carmelita McGrath (Short Fiction Single) narrated by Janet Russell	Great White by Carmelita McGrath (Short Fiction Single) narrated by Janet Russell
The Fat Years by Carmelita McGrath (Short Fiction Single) narrated by the author