Mary Ann in Short
Mary Ann McGuigan’s short stories and creative nonfiction are published widely in literary journals, including The Sun, Massachusetts Review, The Rumpus, SmokeLong, Brevity, and many others. Her collection Pieces: A Novel in Stories includes fiction named for the Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net. That Very Place, her new collection, published by Unsolicited Press, was released in September 2025. The Junior Library Guild and the New York Public Library rank Mary Ann’s YA novels as best books for teens. Where You Belong was a finalist for the National Book Award, and she has served on the panel of judges for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature.
Mary Ann taught English for nearly a decade and was a business and finance editor at Bloomberg L.P. A native of the Bronx, NY, she grew up there and in Jersey City. She graduated from St. Peter’s College in Jersey City and did post-graduate work at the College of New Jersey and the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She lives in Metuchen, NJ, not far from her two handsome grandsons.
