Robin McGrath

Robin McGrath is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Trouble and Desire (1995), Escaped Domestics (1998), Hoist Your Sails and Run (1999), Donovan's Station (2002),Covenant of Salt (2005), and Livyers World(2007). She has published over two hundred pieces in magazines such as Beaver, Inuit Art Quarterly, Parchment, TickleAce, Fiddlehead and Room of One's Own.

She is an occasional contributer to CBC Radio, has written and narrated three video scripts, had her first play staged in 2002, and is currently the non-fiction columnist for the St. John's newspaper The Telegram.

Robin was born in Newfoundland and lives in Labrador with her husband, provincial court judge, John Joy. She is a member of The Writers Union of Canada and the Letterset Association of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Books by Robin McGrath

Labrador, A Reader's Guide

Nursery Rhymes of Newfoundland & Labrador

Alone on the Trail

Life on the Mista Shipu

The Illustrated 'Ode to Labrador'

Birchy Maid, The

Hammered by the Waves

The Winterhouse

All In Together

Livyer's World

Saltfish and Shmattes

Covenant of Salt, A

Donovan's Station

Coastlines

Hoist Your Sails & Run

Escaped Domestics

Trouble & Desire

Canadian Inuit literature