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Throughout thirteen stories, Body of Work chronicles the physical and emotional toll of characters consumed by the all-too-human need for a connection. Their world is achingly common - beauty and regret, obsession and self-doubt, the seductive charm of loneliness. Often fragmented, whimsical, always on the verge of melancholy, the collection is a sepia-toned portrait of nostalgia - each story like an artifact of our impermanence, an embrace of all that we have lost, of all that we might lose and love again someday.

Andrei Guruianu lives in New York City where he teaches in the Expository Writing Program at New York University. He is the author of a memoir and four collections of poetry. In the past he has served as editor and publisher of the literary journal The Broome Review and guest editor of the internationally distributed magazine Yellow Medicine Review. In 2009 and 2010 he served as Broome County, NY's first poet laureate. More of his work at www.andreiguruianu.com