Mary Swan

Mary Swan is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is also a trained librarian with a keen eye for history. Her novel The Boys in the Trees, a shortlisted nominee for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize.^[1] was inspired by a newspaper clipping concerning a death within a family.

Swan was the winner of the 2001 O. Henry Award for short fiction for her short story "The Deep", which was published in The Malahat Review . That story later became the title story of her debut short story collection The Deep and Other Stories in 2002.

A graduate of York University and the University of Guelph, she currently resides in Guelph, Ontario with her family.

• The Deep, The Porcupine's Quill, 2002, ISBN 0-88984-248-5
• Emma’s Hands, The Porcupine's Quill, 2003, ISBN 0-88984-268-X
• Boys in the Trees, Henry Holt and Company, 2008, ISBN 0-8050-8670-6

• Mary Swan profile at The Porcupine's Quill

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