Ann Darby is a recipient of a 2004 creative writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2008 Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Art and is the author of the novel The Orphan Game, a Los Angeles Times bestseller.
"Pity My Simplicity" received the Prairie Schooner Reader’s Choice Award and was one of the “Recommended Stories” in The O. Henry Prize Stories, 2005. She received the Bennett Cerf Prize for fiction, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart and Henfield prizes and was included in the exhibition “In the Studio: 30 Years of the Millay Colony for the Arts;” she has had residencies as well at MacDowell, the Ucross Foundation, and the Seaside Foundation. Her short fiction has appeared in The Northwest Review, The Malahat Review, Prairie Schooner, Ecotone Organica, The Manhattan Literary Review, and The Best of Story Quarterly, among other journals. With Thomas P. Mauriello, she is co-author of The Dollhouse Murders: A Forensic Expert Investigates 6 Little Crimes (Pi Press 2004).
Her nonfiction includes reviews, author profiles, and interviews written for Publishers Weekly and science articles contributed to Scientific American’s Cancer Smart and Bloodlines. She has served on the fiction and nonfiction panel for the Ohio State Arts Council. She has taught fiction for the Riverside Writers’ Group and the Cape Cod Writers Conference and held a teaching Fellowship at Columbia University, where she earned a B.A. in literature and an M.F.A. in fiction, and she was an associate editor at Scientific American Medicine. Once a dancer, she lives in New York City and likes to run in Central Park.
Portrait by Star Black
