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Julianna Baggott is the author of over twenty books published under her own name as well as two pen names. Her novels Harriet Wolf’s Seventh Book of Wonders and Pure were both New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her most recent release is All of Us and Everything, a comedic novel about an odd family, written under Bridget Asher. Baggott’s essays and poems have appeared in The New York Times Modern Love column, New York Times Book Review, Washington Post, Real Simple, Best American Poetry series, and on NPR’s Here and Now, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. She teaches in the College of Motion Picture Arts at Florida State University and holds the Jenks Chair of Contemporary American Letters at Holy Cross.