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Mary South

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Mary South is a graduate of Northwestern University and the MFA program in fiction at Columbia University, where she was a chosen for a Henfield scholarship. For many years, she has worked with Diane Williams as an editor at the literary journal NOON. She is also a former intern in The New Yorker’s fiction department and a Bread Loaf work-study fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, The Collagist, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, NewYorker.com, NOON, and Words Without Borders. The writer Maile Meloy awarded her story “Not Setsuko” an honorable mention in the Zoetrope: All Story fiction contest. She lives in New York.

Mary South Books

You Will Never Be Forgotten book cover

You Will Never Be Forgotten

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Inside Out book cover

Inside Out

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The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water book cover

The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water

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