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Megan Cummins

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Megan Cummins is a writer and editor living in New York. She is the author of the novel ATOMIC HEARTS (Ballantine) and the story collection IF THE BODY ALLOWS IT (University of Nebraska Press), which was awarded the 2019 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction and longlisted for the Story Prize and the PEN/Bingham Award.

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	Atomic Hearts 3.78 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If the Body Allows It: Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction) 4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“In real life, as in books, people can be thin, poorly written, and it's not always their fault if they are.”
― Megan Cummins, Atomic Hearts

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“I had to become a different, stronger person before I'd even figured out who I was in the first place.”
― Megan Cummins, Atomic Hearts

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“The problem, though, is that hell is you and other people, and even from the vantage point of my forgiving memory, I don't always like myself in the story I'm telling, and the guilt-bound part of me would have me show all the bad parts.”
― Megan Cummins, Atomic Hearts

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