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, reaches bookstores in the fall. Her creative nonfiction can be found in journals such as Brevity, The Rumpus, X-R-A-Y, and The Citron Review. The Junior Library Guild and the New York Public Library rank Mary Ann’s young-adult novels among the best books for teens, and WHERE YOU BELONG was a finalist for the National Book Award.