Grisham Writers in Residence
Title
Preview
Creation Date
8-1-1995
Description
The fiction writer Mary Hood is best known as a master of the short-story form, a talented artist of character and settings often inspired by her Georgia surroundings, whose work is widely anthologized in compilations of the best American short fiction of the past four decades. Her most recent book is the collection A Clear View of the Southern Sky (2015), which includes the novella length-work "Seam Busters." Her previous books include the novel Familiar Heat (1995) and the short story collections And Venus is Blue (1986) and How Far She Went (1984), a winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has been published in the Georgia Review, North American Review, and Yankee, among other publications.
Relational Format
photograph