Ann Cummins
Author of Red Ant House: Stories
About the Author
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona writing programs. Ann Cummins has published stories in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and the Best American Short Stories 2002, among other publications. The recipient of a Lannan fellowship, she divides her time between show more Oakland, California, where she lives with her husband, and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University show less
Image credit: S.E. Willis
Works by Ann Cummins
Red Ant House 1 copy
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McSweeney's Issue 6 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): We Now Know Who (2001) — Contributor — 203 copies
McSweeney's Issue 5 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): Sometimes Not Believing How Great This All Is (1975) — Contributor — 181 copies
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- Johns Hopkins University
- Awards and honors
- Lannan Literary Fellowship (2002)
- Agent
- Jenny Bent (Trident Media)
- Short biography
- Born in the southern Rocky Mountain town of Durango, Colorado, Ann Cummins writes frequently about working class people. During the early part of the 20th century, her family migrated from County Galway, Ireland to Colorado, where they mined silver, coal, and uranium. When Cummins was nine, her father--a uranium mill worker--moved the family to Shiprock, New Mexico in the northern part of the Navajo Indian Reservation, where Ann graduated from high school. Although her work extends beyond her ties to the southwest, she is often drawn by landscape and custom to write about the region of her birth.
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona writing programs, Ann Cummins has published stories in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Best American Short Stories, 2002. Her novel, Yellowcake, will be published in March, 2007. The recipient of a Lannan fellowship, she divides her time between Oakland, California, where she lives with her husband, musician S. E. Willis, and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University.
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