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Marian Crotty is the author of the short story collections: Near Strangers, winner of the 2023 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, and What Counts as Love, winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She has received fellowships or scholarships from Yaddo, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the US Fulbright Program. She is an Associate Professor of Writing at Loyola University Maryland and a contributing editor at The Common. She grew up in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and North Carolina and now lives in Baltimore.
"""Crotty’s second collection shares the everyday struggles and joys of women and girls peppered through Middle America. . . . Crotty repeatedly signals that it is not just all right, but good, to realize your perception of someone is fundamentally misaligned with their perception of themself; her characters make confident assumptions, feel surprised, back up, and reacquaint themselves with one another, becoming wiser and more tolerant with each misjudgment and readjustment. Eight heartening reminders that there are few connections impossible to forge or mend."" * Kirkus * “I loved spending time with the narrators of these eight stories, young people who pretend to be misanthropic but are actually deeply in love with the world. Funny, soulful, wry, and more vulnerable than they intend to be, coming of age in the death throes of capitalism, at the rise of gender fluidity, doing their best to forge an identity at an increasingly precarious time.” -- Pam Houston, author of ""Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country"""
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