16 Facts About Ann Hood

Ann Hood was born on December 9,1956 and is an American novelist and short story writer; she has written nonfiction.

Ann Hood is a faculty member in the MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School in New York City.

Ann Hood attended graduate school at New York University, studying American Literature.

Ann Hood says the book began as a series of short stories about three women who went to college together in the 1960s.

At a writer's conference, Ann Hood was convinced by the writer Nicholas Delbanco that she was really writing a novel, and from there she began to connect the stories.

Ann Hood's stories have appeared in Tin House, Ploughshares, Good Housekeeping, Story, Five Points, and others.

Ann Hood is the best-selling author of fourteen novels, including The Obituary Writer, in which she explores the theme of grief and "the remedies that can ease, if never entirely banish" it, and in which she explores gender roles and complications of romantic love.

Ann Hood initially wrote about this experience in an essay for Doubletake magazine.

Ann Hood is a faculty member in the MFA in Creative Writing program at The New School in New York City.

Ann Hood has taught at the Eckerd College Writers' Conference, The Maui Writers' Conference, and The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.

Ann Hood is the recipient of the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and a Best American Spiritual Writing Award.

Ann Hood has two children, daughter Annabelle and son Sam, both with former husband Lorne Adrain.

For two years Ann Hood found herself unable to write or even read.

Ann Hood took solace in learning to knit and in knitting groups.

Ann Hood gradually made her way back to her craft, writing short essays about Grace and grief.

Ann Hood's best-selling memoir Comfort: A Journey Through Grief chronicles her own struggle after her daughter's sudden death.