John McManus is the author of four books of fiction: the novel Bitter Milk and the story collections Fox Tooth Heart, Born on a Train, and Stop Breakin Down. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Oxford American, and many other journals. His MFA from UT-Austin’s Michener Center for Writers is in fiction and screenwriting. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Literature Award, and a Creative Capital Literature grant. The New York Times has said McManus “burrows deep under the skins of his rough, cast-out characters and emerges with stories that are bold and ingenious.”
John McManus is the author of four books of fiction: the novel Bitter Milk and the story collections Fox Tooth Heart, Born on a Train, and Stop Breakin Down. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Oxford American, and many other journals. His MFA from UT-Austin’s Michener Center for Writers is in fiction and screenwriting. He is the recipient of the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Literature Award, and a Creative Capital Literature grant. The New York Times has said McManus “burrows deep under the skins of his rough, cast-out characters and emerges with stories that are bold and ingenious.”