Fiction

The Birthmark

By Jean McGarry | March 3, 2025
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Jean McGarry is the author of 10 books of fiction. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, and The Southeast Review. She is the Elliott Coleman Professor Emerita at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.

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