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

1. "Cummins, Ann". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
2. "Ann Cummins". Poetry Center. 28 January 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
3. "A Guide to Place: A Conversation with Ann Cummins". World Literature Today. 10 March 2015. Retrieved 19 September 2020.
4. "Ann Cummins". KNAU Arizona Public Radio. Retrieved 19 September 2020.

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