Robert McGuill’s work has appeared in Narrative, Southwest Review, Louisiana Literature, American Fiction, The Saturday Evening Post, and other publications. His stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize on five occasions and short-listed for awards by, among others, Glimmer Train, The New Guard, Sequestrum Art & Literature, and Narrative. McGuill’s story collection, “The Outskirts of Nowhere,” was a 2014 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest semi-finalist and a 2015 St. Lawrence Book Award semi-finalist. His short story collection “The Second Time Around” was selected as a finalist for the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for Fiction, and his short story “Desperado” was named a quarterfinalist in the 2023 ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story competition.
