About Julianna Baggott

Julianna Baggott is the author of three novels: Girl Talk, The Miss America Family and The Madam, as well as a book of poems, This Country of Mothers. Her collaboration with Steve Almond, Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions, is forthcoming from Algonquin. Her stories and poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Best American Poetry 2000, Triquarterly, Poetry, and read on NPR’s Talk of the Nation.

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This pain is so familiar
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