Craig Bernardini: 12 OXEN UNDER THE SEA (with Jean McGarry)

In a series of sharp and poignant narratives, New American Fiction Prize-winner Craig Bernardini's thrilling new collection of stories delves into questions of spectatorship, alienation, and trauma as "rehearsals for the apocalypse."

Join us at Bird in Hand, mere blocks from Bernardini's alma mater at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, to hear from the author himself about these fascinating stories. He'll be in conversation with the inimitable Jean McGarry, author of Blue Boy and many other acclaimed works of fiction, and a long-time faculty member in The Writing Seminars.

Order 12 OXEN UNDER THE SEA here

CRAIG BERNARDINI’s stories and essays have appeared in AGNI, Conjunctions online, The Gettysburg Review, New Ohio Review, and many other lovely journals. A graduate of Johns Hopkins (B.A., The Writing Seminars) and the University of Utah (Ph.D., English), he is a Professor of English at Hostos Community College, a City University of New York School in the Bronx. He lives in the mid-Hudson Valley with his partner, dogs, and chickens (cats RIP).

JEAN MCGARRY, formerly Elliott Coleman Professor, is a long-time faculty member in The Writing Seminars, with several stints as department chair and co-chair. She has an AB from Harvard and an MA from Johns Hopkins, and has published ten works of fiction, both novels and story collections. Her 2006 novel A Bad and Stupid Girl received the University of Michigan Fiction Prize. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Southwest Review, and other magazines. She’s recently completed a new story collection, and a memoir, entitled Herself and Others. At present, she’s writing a new novel, as yet untitled. She’s a graduate of the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, where she was an academic associate.

Host or Publisher The Ivy Bookshop