Alyson Hagy was raised on a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. A graduate of Williams College and the MFA program at the University of Michigan, Hagy is the author of four books of fiction: Madonna On Her Back (Stuart Wright, 1986), Hardware River (Poseidon/Simon & Schuster, 1991), Keeneland (Simon & Schuster, 2000), and Graveyard of the Atlantic (Graywolf, 2000). She currently lives and teaches in Laramie, Wyoming.

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