Short Bio of Reilly Maginn
Dr. Reilly Maginn is a surgeon who has spent fifteen years in the south Pacific islands as a medical outreach physician; and he has a host of stories to tell. His writing career began in 1960 when he wrote more than twenty professional articles for national and international surgical journals related primarily to his specialty of organ transplantation. He began writing genre fiction, literary essays, and became the “storyteller” for several gulf coast publications when he returned to the mainland in 1995.
At present he is teaching short story writing for the Institute for Lifelong Learning (ESILL) on the gulf coast. Dr. Maginn has published more than forty award-winning short stories in such venues as the Birmingham Arts Journal, the National League of American Pen Women, Sail Magazine, Thema Literary Journal and Birds and Blooms magazine. He has won numerous writing competition awards from the Alabama Writers Conclave, The Tennessee Mountain Writers Group, The National League of American Pen Women, The Creative Writers of Alabama Group as well as the Baldwin Writers Group.
In addition to his writing endeavors, the doctor is a Master Gardener, a sailboat captain, amateur chef and an accomplished wood turner. He is the past president of the Baldwin Writers Group and a member of the Alabama Writers Conclave, the Chattahoochee Valley Writers Group and The Tennessee Mountain Writers Group. His debut novel BIO, published in 2006, is a medical action thriller. “Doctor Stories & Other Tales,” is a collection of short stories he hopes to publish shortly. He also will soon publish his, as yet unfinished, novel Tsunami.
Dr. Maginn continues as an associate professor of clinical surgery at St. Louis University Medical School, as he has for the last fifty years and continues to do volunteer work in the medical community in the Mobile Bay area.
Please visit his Web Site, www.ReillyMaginn.com for a comprehensive list of awards and publications as well as a more detailed biography.
Recent publications include “Sarah” in the Birmingham Arts Journal, 12/08, “Permission” in the Gulf Coast Mag. This, That and the Other, Magazine 03/06, “Crossed Cultures” in Thema Literary Journal Spring 2010, “Don’t Sass yo’ Momma,” in the Al. Writers Conclave Anthology, 9/08 and in Sail Magazine, “Fall Delivery”, in 01/08 and “Diablo” 3/08 as well as “BOOTS” in the Timber Creek Review.
