Robert McGill
Robert McGill is a professor and writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He teaches at the University of Toronto, where he directs the master’s program in creative writing and has won the Robert Kroetsch Teaching Award. McGill’s short fiction has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, The Dublin Review, and Hazlitt, while his nonfiction has appeared in The Millions, National Post, and The Toronto Star. He lives in Toronto.
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“Sometimes it feels like modern humans are simple creatures who have found themselves in complex stories that seem strange, ridiculous, and emotional; and yet they are clearly the stories of our own times. Robert McGill captures the vulnerability, absurdity, and abject horror of this experience using a mix of traditional and innovative techniques. Simple Creatures stretches the short story to its glorious, contemporary limits. A big-hearted, slick collection that is as playful as it is precise, surprising as it is insightful.”—2025 Atwood Gibson Prize Jury (Gary Barwin, Ali Bryan, and Jasmine Sealy)Works Recognized by WT