Ann Cummins
Ann Cummins is an American fiction writer. She was born in Durango, Colorado, and grew up in New Mexico. She is a graduate of writing programs at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona. She is the author of a short story collection, Red Ant House (2003), and a novel, Yellowcake (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).[1] Cummins lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University,[2] and in Oakland, California, with her husband, the musician S. E. Willis.
Yellowcake is about two families, Irish-catholic and Navajo, that are struggling with the laws of uranium mining.[3]
In 2002 Cummins was a recipient of a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship.[4]
References
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Further reading
- "Illuminating the Landscape of Loneliness" from The Santa Fe New Mexican
- "'Yellowcake' rises from family ties" from Contra Costa Times
- Walking the twilight: women writers of the Southwest, p. 44
- The Prentice Hall anthology of women's literature, p. 1065
- World authors, 2000–2005, p. 141
External links
- Cummins's biography at Northern Arizona University
- Pages with script errors
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women short story writers
- American women novelists
- Novelists from Colorado
- Northern Arizona University faculty
- University of Arizona alumni
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- People from Durango, Colorado
- Writers from New Mexico
- Living people
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- American women academics