Robin McGrath is a writer and novice printmaker. She spent several decades doing research in and writing about the Canadian Arctic, and has written, edited and contributed to numerous books. A former Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, she returned to Newfoundland and Labrador twenty years ago. She currently lives in Goose Bay, where she writes for the Northeast Avalon Times and Labrador Life. She is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the the Newfoundland Quarterly and the Archives Committee of Them Days, and is a volunteer with the O’Brian Arts Centre.