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About Jay Wilcox

I received my MFA from Bennington College and teach at the University of Maryland. I've twice won the Malcolm C. Braly Fiction Award. In THE COTTAGER, an elderly woman travels back in time to save her son's life: https://tinyurl.com/35zhsd54

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