Education
McGrath received her Master of Fine Arts in literature and poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars after receiving an Master of Arts in psychology from Wesleyan University.
author editor of Drunken Boat poet
McGrath received her Master of Fine Arts in literature and poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars after receiving an Master of Arts in psychology from Wesleyan University.
McGrath was awarded the 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for, a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. She has served on the judges’ panels for the Connecticut Book Award in, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her literary interviews have been published in The Writer"s Chronicle and have also been aired on public radio.
McGrath serves on the advisory board for The Word Works, a literary press in Washington, District of Columbia, which sponsors The Washington Prize, as well as the board of The James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut. McGrath edited and published (through Drunken Boat Press, 2010) the posthumous poetry collection of Reetika Vazirani, Radha Says.