McNair’s short story collection THE TEMPLE OF AIR is the winner of the Devil’s Kitchen Literary Fest Reading Award, a finalist for the Society of Midland Authors’s Award in adult fiction, and a finalist for the Chicago Writers’ Association Book of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in American Fiction: Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers, Other Voices, F Magazine, Superstition Review, Dunes Review, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, and others.