A. Manette Ansay grew up in Wisconsin among 67 cousins and more than 200 second cousins. She is the author of six novels, including Good Things I Wish You (July, 2009), 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 daughter in Florida, where she teaches in the M.F.A. program at the University of Miami.
Discipline:
Literature
A. Manette Ansay
Discipline:
Literature
Region: Lake Worth, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991, 1995, 1999
More:
www.amanetteansay.com
Studios
Watson
A. Manette Ansay worked in the Watson studio.
Built in 1916 in memory of Regina Watson of Chicago, a musician and teacher, this studio was donated by a group of her friends, along with funds for its maintenance. Originally designed to serve as a composers’ studio with room for performance, Watson was used as a recital hall for chamber music for a…