Born in 1966, Gillian McCain grew up in Florenceville, New Brunswick. She has a B.A. from Dalhousie University, and a M.A. from New York University. She was the programme coordinator of the Poetry Project at the St.Mark's Church, the editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter, and currently serves on the board of directors. At present, she is co-writing (with Legs McNeil) a screenplay adaptation of their book Please Kill Me for Jersey Films.
Awards
The Ralph Gleason Music Book Award, third prize, 1997.
Selected Publications
Tilt. (Hard Press Inc., 1996)
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. (Grove Press, 1996;
Penguin Books, 1997).
Selected Anthologies
Take this Waltz: A Celebration of Leonard Cohen. (The Muses' Company,
1994).
Books in Print
McCain, Gillian
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Grove Press, 1996;
Penguin Books, 1997. ISBN: 0-1402-6690-9.
Tilt. Hard Press Inc., 1996. ISBN: 1-889097-04-7.
Gillian McCain, c/o the Poetry Project, 131 E. 10th Street, New York
NY 10003 USA