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.