Robin McLean worked as lawyer and then a potter in the woods of Alaska before turning to writing. Her story collection Reptile House won the 2013 BOA Editions Fiction Prize and was twice a finalist for the Flannery O'Connor Short Story Prize. She now lives and teaches in the high plains desert of central Nevada at Ike's Canyon Ranch Writer's Retreat which she co-founded.
Her debut novel Pity the Beast was published November 2021.
At Electric Lit McLean tagged eight "books where travelers must navigate harsh landscapes in order to live," including:
Outlawed by Anna NorthRead about another entry on the list.
Outlawed is a genre-busting, gender-busting, Wild West myth-busting story, wherein the famed Hole-in-the-Wall Gang of the Powder River Basin inWyoming are all actually a bunch of barren women. They’ve been “outlawed” by their communities and families back home for the sin of being childless. They seek a Utopian home of diversity and acceptance. They will gunfight if they must. They seek science over myth as North turns the Western on its head, as well as the telling of history itself.
Outlawed is among Christina Sweeney-Baird's seven books that imagine a world without men.
The Page 69 Test: Outlawed.
--Marshal Zeringue
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