ST. MARY'S CITY, Md., May 12 -- St. Mary's College of Maryland issued the following news release:
Associate Professor of English Jerry Gabriel's first novel, "Deserters," has just been published (Acre Books, 2026) and is available for purchase from the University of Chicago Press, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Bookshop. Gabriel is the author of two collections of stories, "The Let Go" (Queen's Ferry Press, 2015) and "Drowned Boy" (Sarabande, 2010), which won the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, was a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" pick and was awarded the 2011 Towson Prize for Literature. His stories have appeared in "One Story," "Epoch," "Fiction," The Missouri Review," and "Alaska Quarterly Review," among other public...