ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Knox Garvin
JOHN MCMANUS is the author of the novel Bitter Milk and the short story collections Born on a Train and Stop Breakin Down. His work has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, Oxford American, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award, and a Creative Capital Literature grant. He lives in Virginia.