Reptile House

In addition to winning the 2013 BOA Fiction Prize, "Cold Snap," the first story in the book, was just named Grand Prize Winner of the 2014 Carolina Quarterly End Is Nigh contest by judge Jim Shephard. Reptile House was a finalist twice for the Flannery O'Connor Short Story Prize (2011 and 2012), with different judges each year.

The collection is language-driven, of interest to people interested in complex but engaging, relevant prose and poetry.

McLean has a very unique and unusual background as a lawyer, then a potter in the woods Alaska for 15 years (cabin building, no running water, and political activism), then leaving Alaska to become a writer, teacher, and to work on a 200-year-old western Massachusetts farm as a gardener and haunted corn maze director.

Author is known at Amherst Books, Amherst, MA; Book Store, Lennox, MA; Odyssey Bookstore, South Hadley, MA; Clark University Bookstore; University of Massachusetts Bookstore; Sunderland Library, Sunderland MA; and Minot Sleeper Library, Bristol, NH.

McLean regularly attends numerous annual conferences and workshops, including: Tin House Summer Writing Conference, Portland Oregon; Wishing Stone Writing Workshop, Lennox, MA; The Muse and The Marketplace, Grubstreet, Boston, MA; New York State Summer Writers Institute, Saratoga Springs, NY; and AWP Conference.

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