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Rowan Beaird is the author of The Divorcées and Tenderness. Her novels have been named best books by Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, People, Real Simple, and the Chicago Review of Books. Her short fiction has appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and The Common, among others, and she is the recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.