Robert McGuill is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Narrative Magazine Contest Winner, and "Best of the Net" nominee. His story collection "The Outskirts of Nowhere" was a 2014 Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest semi-finalist, and a 2015 St. Lawrence Book Award semi-finalist. McGuill's short story "Requiem for a Bantamweight" was selected as a finalist in the 2014 Machigonne Fiction Writing contest, and his short story "Desperado" was named a finalist in American Fiction 2015.  In 2016, McGuill's short story "Riverbound" was named a finalist for the Sequestrum New Writers Award, and his short story collection, The Second Time Around was named a finalist for the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for Fiction. In 2017, McGuill’s short story "Unseen" was named a finalist for the University of Arizona's Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards Competition, and his story “Man of Letters” was ranked #5 in The Saturday Evening Post’s “Top 10 Stories of the Year.” In 2018, McGuill’s short fiction “Kings in Exile” was selected as a finalist in the Sequestrum New Writer Awards, and in 2023 he was named a Quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Short Story Competition. His works of fiction have appeared in literary magazines throughout the U.S. and abroad.

McGuill lives and writes in Colorado. He is an assistant editor with Narrative Magazine. His work is represented by Trident Media Group.