A. Manette Ansay
A. Manette Ansay was born in Lapeer, Michigan in 1964, and grew up in Port Washington, Wisconsin among 67 cousins and over 200 second cousins.
She started writing as a New Year's resolution on January 1st, 1988 after developing a muscle disorder which made it necessary for her to find a career she could manage sitting down.
Her first novel, Vinegar Hill, was published in 1994, followed by a story collection, Read This and Tell Me What it Says in 1995. She has since published four more novels: Sister (1996) River Angel (1998), Midnight Champagne (1999), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Blue Water. She's been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Friends of American Writers Prize, and two Great Lakes Book Awards, among others. Vinegar Hill was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her November 1999 Book Club Selection. Ansay's memoir, Limbo, was published in 2001.
Currently she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, where she is Associate Professor of English. She lives with her husband and daughter, to whom her new novel, Blue Water, is dedicated.
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