She authored the poetry collection Feminists Are Passing from Our Lives (The Word Works, 2018);[1] Out From the Pleiades: a picaresque novella in verse (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014), and Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (Main St. Rag, 2009), a finalist for the 2010 Connecticut Book Award for Poetry;.
[3] She published three chapbooks: By the Windpipe (ELJ Editions, 2014);[4] the satiric novella in verse, Out From the Pleiades (Jaded Ibis Press, 2014);[5] andToward Anguish, which won the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award.
[1] McGrath co-edited Reetika Vazirani's posthumous poetry collection, Radha Says: Last Poems (Drunken Boat Books, 2010).
[7] In addition to the honors noted above, McGrath was awarded the University of Tulsa's 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry,[8] a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, a 2010 grant from the Greater Hartford Arts Council,[9] residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Hedgebrook, and the 2017 Gretchen Warren Award from The New England Poetry Club.
Her poems have been published widely, including in Agni, Poetry magazine, The Academy of American Poets, The Writer’s Chronicle, and The Yale Review.