A. Manette Ansay

A. Manette Ansay grew up in Wisconsin among 67 cousins and over 200 second cousins.   She is the author of six novels, including  Good Things I Wish You (July, 2009) and Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club selection, and Midnight Champagne, a finalist the the National Book Critics Circle award.  In addition, she is the author of  as a short story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says and a memoir, Limbo.  Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Nelson Algren Prize, and two Great Lakes Book Awards.  A Professor of English,  she lives with her daughter in Florida where she teaches  in the MFA program at the University of Miami.