Mary South is the author of the short story collection, You Will Never Be Forgotten, with FSG Originals. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and the MFA program in fiction at Columbia University. For many years, she has worked as an editor at the literary journal NOON. Mary is also a former intern in The New Yorker's fiction department and a Bread Loaf work-study fellow. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, BOMB, The Collagist, Conjunctions, Electric Literature, NOON, and Words Without Borders, and on NewYorker.com. The writer Maile Meloy awarded her story "Not Setsuko" an honorable mention in the Zoetrope: All Story fiction contest. She lives in New York City.

FICTION

Excerpt from You Will Never Be Forgotten: Not Setsuko

By MARY SOUTH

Unlike most mothers, I gave birth to my daughter Setsuko not once, but twice.