Mary Ann McGuigan was born in the Bronx, New York, and knows the joys and perils of growing up in a large Irish Catholic family. After graduating from St. Peter�s University, she taught English but spent most of her career as a financial editor, mainly for Bloomberg L.P.
Her short stories�nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications� Best of the Net�have appeared in North American Review, The Sun, Prime Number, Grist, Perigee, Into the Void, and many other literary journals. Her articles and essays have been published in Word Riot, New York Times, New York Sunday Newsday, Bloomberg Markets magazine, and elsewhere.
The New York Public Library, the Junior Library Guild, and the Paterson Prize have ranked Mary Ann�s four young-adult novels among the best books for teens, and she has served on the panel of judges for the National Book Award for Young People�s Literature. Where You Belong, her second novel, was a finalist for the National Book Award.
She now lives in Metuchen, New Jersey
