Ann Cummins

Ann Cummins's Biography Born in the southern Rocky Mountain town of Durango, Colorado, Ann Cummins writes frequently about working class people. During the early part of the 20th century, her family migrated from County Galway, Ireland to Colorado, where they mined silver, coal, and uranium. When Cummins was nine, her father—a uranium mill worker—moved the family to Shiprock, New Mexico in the northern part of the Navajo Indian Reservation, where Ann graduated from high school. Although her work extends beyond her ties to the southwest, she is often drawn by landscape and custom to write about the region of her birth.

University Affiliation

  • Faculty, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
    Faculty, Queens College Low Residency, Charlotte, NC

Agents

  • Jenny Bent

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Publishers

  • Houghton Mifflin/Mariner