A. Manette Ansay

A. Manette Ansay is the author of five novels, including
Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club Selection, and
Midnight Champagne, a finalist for the National Book
Critics Circle Award, as well 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. She lives
with her husband and daughter in Florida, where she teaches
in the MFA program at the University of Miami.