Ann Packer is the author of six works of fiction, including the bestselling novels THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE and THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN'S PIER, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honors. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, and her novels have been published around the world. She divides her time among New York, the Bay Area and Maine.

Books by Ann Packer

Swim Back to Me: Stories

by Ann Packer - Fiction, Short Stories

In this emotional collection, characters are shattered and remade by loss. A wife struggles to make sense of her husband’s disappearance; a mother mourns her teenage son through his favorite music; and a woman reflects on the year her family collapsed.

Songs Without Words

by Ann Packer - Fiction

The Dive From Clausen's Pier

by Ann Packer - Fiction