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Erin Swan is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has been published in Fourth Genre, Portland Review, The South Carolina Review, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the MFA program at the New School and also holds an MA in the Teaching of English from Teacher’s College at Columbia University. A native New Yorker, she lives in Brooklyn and teaches literature and writing at a public high school in lower Manhattan. WALK THE VANISHED EARTH is her first novel.
Walk the Vanished Earth
It is 1873, and Samson butchers bison on the Kansas plains, hungering for a family and farm of his own. It is 1975, and twelve-year-old Bea walks north from New Mexico bearing a baby she believes will be a giant. It is 2027, and Kaiser scavenges...