Ian McGuire
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About the Author
Ian McGuire is the author of The North Water, Incredible Bodies, and The Abstainer. He grew up near Hull, England, and studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Virginia in the United States. He is the cofounder and codirector of the University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing. He writes criticism and fiction, and his stories have been published in Chicago Review, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.