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Michelle Brafman
is the author of
Washing the Dead
. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in
The Washington Post, Tablet
, the
Los Angeles Review of Books
,
Slate
,
Lilith Magazine
,
the minnesota review
, and elsewhere. She teaches fiction writing at the Johns Hopkins University MA in Writing Program and lives in Glen Echo, Maryland, with her husband and two children.