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Gillian McCain was born on 1 January, 1966, is a Canadian poet. Discover Gillian McCain's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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1966

Gillian McCain (born January 1, 1966) is a Canadian poet, author, and photography collector best known for Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which she co-wrote with Legs McNeil.

McCain is the author of two books of poetry: Tilt and Religion.

Portions of her "found photo" collection have been featured in magazines, published as limited edition books, and exhibited at the Camera Club of New York gallery.

She sat on the board of directors of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and was the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery New York City.

McCain was born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada.

She attended the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she earned a B.A in Literature.

1971

Dear Nobody has garnered positive reviews since its release and has been praised as a true version of the 1971 novel Go Ask Alice.

1987

She moved to New York City in 1987 where she went on to complete a M.A. in Literature at New York University in 1990.

1988

In 1988, McCain studied in the Naropa Institute’s summer program.

1991

Following her graduation from New York University, McCain was hired by the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where she served as program coordinator (1991–1994), editor of the Poetry Project Newsletter (1994–1995), and edited four issues of the lit-zine Milk.

In 1991 she founded the Friday Night Series—a weekly event that featured poetry, fiction, non-fiction, theme readings, tributes, lectures, performance art and music.

In four years she brought in over four hundred artists.

The series continues to this day.

1995

She devoted herself to writing full-time in 1995.

1996

In 1996, Grove Press published Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, which McCain co-wrote with Legs McNeil.

Composed of the excerpts from hundreds of interviews, Please Kill Me presents a unique view of a volatile and complex period in American history.

The book spans the early-Punk period of the Velvet Underground through the rise and fall of Punk icons Iggy Pop, the Ramones, and more.

Please Kill Me was an instant hit and has since become a cult classic, inspiring a new era of musical oral histories.

Upon its initial release Please Kill Me was a Time Out and Daily News Top Ten book of the year.

A review in Time Out New York said the book, "Ranks up there with the great rock & roll books of all time."

Excerpts of the book appeared in Vanity Fair in concert with the book's release in 1996.

It is now published in Brazil, China, The Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Spain.

McCain published her first book of poetry, Tilt, in 1996.

In Tilt, McCain reflects on the impact the New York School of poetry and the day-to-day chaos and intensity of life had on her.

Tilt has received accolades for its "chatty, detached style."

Said poet John Ashbery of Tilt, "Gillian McCain’s poems are like urgent telegrams from the next door, or oddly but brilliantly cropped snapshots of a life that is going by."

Author and poet Harry Mathews called it a, "brilliant collection of prose poems.

1999

McCain published another book of poetry, Religion, in 1999.

Her second published collection of poetry was very well received.

"Her work features ‘I did this then I did that’ New York School immediacy, but undermines it with ironic distance that collapses any naïve faith in the immediate as a source of value," said poet Mark Wallace in a review in the Poetry Project Newsletter.

McCain obtains lines for her poetry from a multitude of everyday sources, including overheard conversations and random lines from books, magazines, and newspapers.

She says that writing poetry is like "treasure hunting."

The Encyclopedia of The New York School Poets describes her thusly: "As a poet, she writes prose that manages to be both playful and deadly serious in its criticism of its of FORM, the forms of contemporary society, and the forms of opposition to society that the readers of New York School poetry may take for granted a little too readily."

2002

McCain married James "Jim" Marshall, a writer, whom she met at the Poetry Project, in 2002.

2011

The "punk musical" was written in 2011 and has since been taken on tour throughout France by the Nouveau Theatre Montreuil.

In her early writing career, Gillian McCain was initially intrigued by free verse poetry, however, while studying with poet Larry Fagin, she became attracted to prose poetry.

2014

In 2014, McCain and McNeil collaborated again to edit Dear Nobody: The True Diary of Mary Rose, a compilation of journal entries written by a 17-year-old Pennsylvania teenager who suffered from drug addiction, alcoholism, and cystic fibrosis.

Publishers Weekly described the book as a "rare, no-holds-barred documentation of an American teenager’s life, written for no audience but herself."

McCain and Mary Rose’s mother were interviewed in 2014 for a segment called, "The Dairy of a Teenage Girl: ‘The Jane Austen Of Juvenile Delinquents’" for the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC-FM.

Gillian McCain and Legs McNeil’s Please Kill Me has been adapted into a stage production by French director Mathieu Bauer.