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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]
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona writing programs, Ann Cummins has published stories in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Best American Short Stories, 2002. Her novel, Yellowcake, will be published in March, 2007.
Ann Cummins is Professor of Creative Writing at Northern Arizona University. She has published stories in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Antioch Review, and elsewhere; her fiction has been anthologized in a variety of series including The Best American Short Stories, The Prentice Hall Anthology of Women’s Literature, and The Anchor Book of ...
Ann Cummins is the daughter of Irish immigrants who settled in Colorado. Her father, a uranium mill worker, moved the family to Shiprock, New Mexico, when she was nine, and Cummins graduated from high school on the Navajo Indian reservation. The English professor's first book is a collection titled Red Ant House: Stories.
Now, in her debut novel, Cummins stakes claim to rich new literary territory with a story of straddling cultures and cheating fate in the American Southwest. Yellowcake introduces us to two unforgettable families—one Navajo, one Anglo—some thirty years after the closing of the uranium mill near which they once made their homes.
Ann Cummins is a short-story writer and novelist whose writing has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Short Stories 2002. She is the author of Red Ant House: Stories (2003) and Yellowcake (2007).
When I returned from my trip, I had the opportunity to interview Ann Cummins. Cummins spoke of her personal history growing up on a reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico, which led to the development of the diverse lives of her characters in Yellowcake.
