About the Author

Ann Claycomb is the author of The Mermaid's Daughter, a novel from William Morrow, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers.  Ann is a writer living in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she earned her MFA in fiction from West Virginia University, and an MA in literature from University of Maryland.  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.