RECKONINGS & RECKLESSNESS – FICTION

ANN HOOD is the author of the bestselling novels The Knitting Circle: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), The Obituary Writer: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), and The Book That Matters Most: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company), as well as the memoirs Kitchen Yarns: Notes on Life, Love, and Food (W. W. Norton & Company), Fly Girl: A Memoir (W. W. Norton & Company), and Comfort: A Journey Through Grief (W. W. Norton & Company), which was named one of the top 10 nonfiction books of 2008. Hood has won two Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Food Writing awards, and Best American Travel Writing and Best American Spiritual Writing awards. Her most recent book is The Stolen Child: A Novel (W. W. Norton & Company).

ROXANA ROBINSON is the author of 11 books, including seven novels, three collections of short stories, and a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of her books were selected as New York Times “Notable Books” and two as NYT “Editors’ Choice” picks. Robinson’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, The Best American Short Stories, The Southampton Review, Ep!phany, and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized and broadcast on NPR, and her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Holland, and Spain.