Michelle Brafman is the author of the novel Washing the Dead.  Her short fiction short has won some awards, including a special mention in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and my essays and stories have appeared in Slate, The Washington Post, Tablet, Lilith Magazine, the minnesota review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and numerous other publications.  She teaches fiction at Johns Hopkins University.

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