About the Author

A. Manette Ansay’s critically acclaimed first novel, Vinegar Hill, won a Friends of American Writer’s Prize and was listed as one of the Best Books of 1994 by the Chicago Tribune. Her story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says, was awarded the Associated Writing Program’s Short Fiction Series Prize. In 1992, she won the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Prize and the following year she was a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The North American Review, Story, and The Pushcart Prize XIX: Best of the Small Presses. Ansay lives with her husband in Nashville, Tennessee, and teaches in the MFA program at Warren Wilson College.

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