Robin McGrath (born March 29, 1949) is a Canadian writer from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
[1] During her academic career, she also wrote for the London Free Press and the Edmonton Journal, and published Canadian Inuit Literature: The Development of a Tradition, one of the first-ever academic studies of Inuit oral literary traditions.
[1] She published the short fiction collection Trouble and Desire in 1996,[3] which was a Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award nominee in 1998.
[9] In 2002, the Resource Centre for the Arts staged her theatrical play A Mountain of Shoes, about a young Holocaust survivor who settles in Newfoundland,[10] and she published the novel Donovan's Station.
[14] Her 2009 novel The Winterhouse won a Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction in 2010.