Ann Hood, a best-selling American novelist, essayist, and short story writer is 
the author of fifteen books, including the best-sellers,The Knitting Circle, The Red Thread, The Obituary Writer, The Italian Wife and Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine. Her memoir, Comfort: A Journey Through Grief was a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” and named one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Her essays and short stories have appeared in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Tin House. Hood is a regular contributor to the New York Times. Her most recent anthology, Knitting Pearls: Writers Writing about Knitting, was published by W.W. Norton and Company in the fall of 2015. She is the winner of two Pushcart Prizes as well as two Best American Food Writing awards, a Best American Travel Writing award, and a Best American Spiritual Writing award. Her essays have been selected as the “100 Notable Essays” of the year six times, and she holds the record for publishing the most essays – 5! – in the New York Times “Modern Love” column. Her new novel is The Book That Matters Most. Hood lives in Providence, Rhode Island. Please visit her website at: www.annhood.us
