Mary Swan is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is also a trained librarian with a keen eye for history. Her novel ''The Boys in the Trees'', a shortlisted nominee for the 2008

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'', October 7, 2008. was inspired by a newspaper clipping concerning a death within a family. Swan was the winner of the 2001 O. Henry Award for short fiction for her short story "The Deep", which was published in ''

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''. That story later became the title story of her debut short story collection ''The Deep and Other Stories'' in 2002. A graduate of

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and the

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, she currently resides in

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with her family.

Bibliography

* ''The Deep'', The Porcupine's Quill, 2002, * ''Emma’s Hands'', The Porcupine's Quill, 2003, * ''Boys in the Trees'', Henry Holt and Company, 2008,

References

External links

Mary Swan profile at The Porcupine's Quill
Canadian women novelists Canadian librarians Canadian women librarians York University alumni University of Guelph alumni Writers from Guelph Living people Canadian women short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian women writers O. Henry Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) Novelists from Ontario {{Canada-writer-stub