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Winter 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 1 • Fiction |

The Penance Practicum

By Erin McGraw

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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.

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