Carmelita McGrath was born in Branch, Newfoundland in 1960. She has been writing and publishing poetry, short fiction and articles since 1983. Her work has appeared in TickleAce, Waves, The New Quarterly, the anthology Digging Into The Hill and other literary publications.

She has won several awards for her work, including first prizes for poetry and fiction in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition and she was the winner of the 1998 Atlantic Poetry Prize. She has also edited TickleAce magazine, two volumes of autobiography, and a variety of other fiction works.

Ms. McGrath has worked as a writer, editor, teacher, researcher and reviewer. She currently reviews books for "The Book Girls" on CBC Weekend AM, and works as a freelance editor and researcher in St. John’s.

In Progress:

Want a novel

Fiction:

Stranger Things Have Happened Killick, 1999

Signatures (editor), Killick, 1996

Their Lives and Times: Women in Newfoundland and Labrador
(co-editor), Killick, 1995

Walking to Shenak Killick, 1994

Poetry:

To The New World Killick, 1997

Poems on Land and on Water Killick, 1992

Awards:

• 2000 Writers’ Alliance/Bennington Gate Newfoundland Book Award,
  Stranger Things Have Happened
• 2000 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Shortlist,
  Stranger Things Have Happened
• 1998 Inaugural Atlantic Poetry Prize,
  To The New World