A. Manette Ansay
Biography
A. Manette Ansay
A. Manette Ansay is a graduate of Cornell University's MFA program. Her acclaimed first novel, Vinegar Hill, won a Friends of American Writers Prize and was cited as one of the Best Books of 1994 by the Chicago Tribune. Her story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says, was awarded the Associated Writing Programs Short Fiction Series. She is the 1992 winner of the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Prize and a 1993 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Her stories, poems and essays have appeared in many publications, including The North American Review, Story and The Pushcart Prize XIX: Best of the Small Presses. She lives with her husband and daughter in Florida, where she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami.
A. Manette Ansay