Instructor Bio: Ann Hood

Ann Hood is the author, most recently, of the novel The Knitting Circle, a memoir Comfort: My Journey Through Grief, and a young adult novel, How I Saved My Father's Life and Ruined Everything Else.

Her essays and short stories have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Bon Appetit, The Paris Review, Real Simple, Traveler, Food and Wine, and Tin House. She has won two Pushcart Prizes, the Paul Bowles Prize for Short Fiction, and a Best American Spiritual Writing Award.

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