Jean McGarry, formerly Elliott Coleman Professor, is a long-time faculty member in The Writing Seminars, with several stints as department chair and co-chair. She has an AB from Harvard and an MA from Johns Hopkins, and has published ten works of fiction, both novels and story collections. Her 2006 novel A Bad and Stupid Girl received the University of Michigan Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Southwest Review, and other magazines. She’s recently completed a new story collection, and a memoir, entitled Herself and Others. At present, she’s writing a new novel, as yet untitled. She’s a graduate of the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, where she was an academic associate.

Blue Boy, Jackleg Press, 2022

No Harm Done, Dalkey Archive Press, 2017

Ocean State, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010

A Bad and Stupid Girl, University of Michigan Press, 2006

Dream Date, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001

Gallagher’s Travels, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997

Home At Last, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994

The Courage of Girls, Rutgers University Press, 1991

The Very Rich Hours, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987

Airs of Providence, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985