Mary Ann McGuigan’s short fiction has appeared in The Sun, Massachusetts Review, North American Review, and many other journals. Her collection PIECES includes stories named for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. THAT VERY PLACE, her new collection, published in 2025, was praised by Kirkus as “a literary tour de force.” Her creative nonfiction is published widely—SmokeLong Quarterly, Brevity, The Rumpus, and X-R-A-Y. The Junior Library Guild and the New York Public Library rank Mary Ann’s young-adult novels as best books for teens, and WHERE YOU BELONG was a finalist for the National Book Award. She loves visitors: www.maryannmcguigan.com.
