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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).[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]

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  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.

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