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Susan Barr-Toman's debut novel When Love Was Clean Underwear was selected by Ann Hood as the winner of the Many Voices Project's Fiction Prize 2007.

Look for Mary Mulgrew, What Did You Do? a children's book Susan created with her sister artist Sarah Barr this fall.

Susan was born and raised in Philadelphia where she still lives with her husband and two children and where she teaches writing at Temple University and Rosemont College.  She holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars.