Ann Cummins
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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).{{cite web |title=Cummins, Ann |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/cummins-ann |website=Encyclopedia.com |accessdate=19 September 2020}} Cummins lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University,{{cite web |title=Ann Cummins |url=https://poetry.arizona.edu/people/ann-cummins |website=Poetry Center |accessdate=19 September 2020 |language=en |date=28 January 2015}} 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.{{cite web |title=A Guide to Place: A Conversation with Ann Cummins |url=https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/interviews-road/guide-place-conversation-ann-cummins |website=World Literature Today |accessdate=19 September 2020 |language=en |date=10 March 2015}}
In 2002 Cummins was a recipient of a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship.{{cite web |title=Ann Cummins |url=https://www.knau.org/people/ann-cummins |website=KNAU Arizona Public Radio |accessdate=19 September 2020 |language=en}}
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Further reading
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20190709131057/http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date%3AD&p_product=AWNB&p_text_direct-0=document_id%3D%28%200FE21F6004B85275%20%29&p_docid=0FE21F6004B85275&p_theme=aggdocs&p_queryname=0FE21F6004B85275&f_openurl=yes&p "Illuminating the Landscape of Loneliness"] from The Santa Fe New Mexican
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20190709131207/http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/InfoWeb?p_action=doc&p_topdoc=1&p_docnum=1&p_sort=YMD_date%3AD&p_product=AWNB&p_text_direct-0=document_id%3D%28%20117DB97A124C2C70%20%29&p_docid=117DB97A124C2C70&p_theme=aggdocs&p_queryname=117DB97A124C2C70&f_openurl=yes&p "'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
- [http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~amc/ Cummins's biography] at Northern Arizona University
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Category:21st-century American novelists
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Category:21st-century American women writers