Jean McGarry is the author of nine books on fiction, story collections, and novels among them the novel The Courage of Girls (Rutgers University Press) and the short story collection Dream Date (JHU Press). Her 2006 novel, A Bad and Stupid Girl (University of Michigan Press), received the University of Michigan Fiction Prize. The most recent of which is Ocean State She is a professor and co-chair of The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Yale Review, Boulevard, The Southwest Review, and others. She is a graduate of the Baltimore-Washington Psychoanalytic Institute.