Mary Hawthorne is a New England-born novelist whose work braids folklore with contemporary dread. Raised in Salem, Massachusetts, she studied archives management at Simmons University and worked for a decade cataloging ephemera in historical societies before writing full-time. Her debut, The Drowned Garden, appeared in 2021, followed by Nightjar Road in 2022. Her short fiction has appeared in Nightmare, The Dark, and several regional anthologies. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, in a creaky triple-decker with too many books and an elderly black cat named Penumbra. When she is not writing, she volunteers restoring neglected graveyards along the South Coast.
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