Ann Cummins is a short-story writer and novelist whose writing has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Best American Short Stories 2002. She is the author of Red Ant House: Stories (2003) and Yellowcake (2007). The recipient of a Lannan fellowship, Cummins is a professor of creative writing at Northern Arizona University. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona in 1989.