Friday, October 8, 2010

About the Author

Ann Claycomb is a writer living in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she earned her MFA in fiction from West Virginia University.  She has studied with Emily Mitchell, Gail Galloway Adams, Mark Brazaitis, Kevin Oderman, Claire Messud, Joyce Kornblatt, Howard Norman, and Reginald McKnight. She has published fiction and creative non-fiction in several venues, and is at work on a novel about mermaids and opera.

Publications

The Mermaids Daughter,  2017 from William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers

"Rosemary, for Remembrance" 2011 in Title Goes Here

"Wolves at the Door" April 2011 in Zahir

"Boys" in "Micrografitti" in The Owls, December 2010

"In Search of a Smaller Bar Scene," Evansville Review, June 2010.

"Proof of a Wedding Photo, 1969," Hot Metal Bridge, Spring 2010
  • Winner, West Virginia New Writers Contest, 2007
  • Nominee, Best of the Web
  • Nominee, Pushcart Prize 2010

"WQED, Channel 13: Programming Guide", Brevity 31, Fall 2009

"Jeannette Leaves her Recipes," Fiction Weekly, 29 March 2009

"Distance Driving,"  Fourth River, Autumn 2007

"The Protege" Prick of the Spindle, June 2007


"Pas de Deux," The Madison Review, Spring  2000