Gillian McCain

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.

She attended the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she earned a B.A in Literature. 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.[
Following her graduation 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. She devoted herself to writing full-time in 1995.

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

(Edited from wikipedia)