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Erin McGraw

Erin McGraw is the author of six books of fiction, most recently Better Food for a Better World: A Novel (Slant Books, 2013). Her stories have appeared in Kenyon Review, Atlantic and many other journals. She lives in Tennessee with her husband, the poet Andrew Hudgins.

Fiction

Fall 2011

Punchline

By Erin McGraw

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything.        —As You Like It, William Shakespeare When […]

Fiction

Autumn 2006

California

By Erin McGraw

Excerpt from the novel Ain’t We Got Fun Everyone said that Lucille was her daddy Jack’s child, right down to the ground. She had his curly hair, his little bandy […]

Fiction

Winter 2004

The Penance Practicum

By Erin McGraw

Father Dom was pleased with his reflection in the mirror. To the front of his cassock he had stapled a big dot cut out of white paper; below the cincture […]

Fiction

Winter 1989

A Thief

By Erin McGraw

No one, looking at her, would have guessed Evelyn to be a woman with pets. She was not generous or immediate with her affections, not quick to call after the […]

Jan/Feb 2018

Teeth

By Erin McGraw

My car didn’t want to start this morning—Dan says it’s the distributor cap—so I was late getting to work, and the first patient was already in the chair. Dr. Ross […]

Erin McGraw

A micro-interview with Erin McGraw by KR Associate Heather Crowley. Erin McGraw is the author of five books, most recently the novel The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard. She teaches at […]