authorDiscover the Best Books Written by A. Manette Ansay
New York Times best-selling author A. Manette Ansay lives and writes east of Boulder, Colorado, where she enjoys freelancing as a writing mentor and college essay coach. She is a Professor Emeritus at The University of Miami. She served as director of the MFA program, taught courses in fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry, and advised and mentored undergraduate and graduate students.
Her novels include Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club Selection; Midnight Champagne, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Sister, River Angel, Blue Water, and Good Things I Wish You. She has also published a memoir, Limbo, and a short story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says, which won the AWP Short Fiction Series Prize.
Honors and Awards include the Chancellor’s Award from the University of Wisconsin/Whitewater, the Stillwater Society Presidential Award for Achievement from the University of Maine, the Banta Prize from the Wisconsin Librarians Association, two Great Lakes Book Awards from the Great Lakes Booksellers Association, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and Pushcart Prize for Fiction.
