John J McLaughlinJohn J. McLaughlin was born in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in Virginia and Washington, DC. John began his writing career while a student at the University of Virginia. He went on to earn his MFA in fiction writing at the University of Iowa Writer' Workshop. His work has been published in The Washington Post, Albemarle, The Charlottesville Observer, National Catholic Reporter, America, and HungerMountain, and has earned a Wagenheim prize for short fiction. His debut novel, Run in the Fam'ly (University of Tennessee Press, 2007), won the 2006 Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel. In 1999, John founded the Pentecost Project, a service-learning program in Dominican communities he has now known for ten years. It is now part of Education Across Borders, the nonprofit organization which John directs. He lives with his wife and two children in Seattle, where he is a member of St. Therese Parish; he serves on its Social Justice Commission, and volunteers in its winter overnight shelter. Read More Read Less