Ann Hood is the author of seven novels, including Somewhere Off The Coast Of Maine (Picador, 1987) and Ruby (Picador, 1998), and a nonfiction book, Do Not Go Gentle: My Search For Miracles In A Cynical Time (Picador, 2001). She has won the Pushcart Prize for Non-Fiction Writing, a Best American Spiritual Writing Award, Honorable Mention for an 0. Henry Award and a Best American Short Story Prize. She has been a Fellow at the Yaddo and MacDowell Colonies, and has taught Creative Writing at N.Y.U., Rhode Island School of Design, Bennington College and the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' Conferences.