A. Manette Ansay's latest novel,
Good Things I Wish You, has been awarded a 2009 Florida Book Award (bronze) and will be published in paperback this June by HarperPerennial.
Ansay is the author of six novels, including
Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club Selection, and
Midnight Champagne, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as a short story collection,
Read This and Tell Me What It Says, and a memoir,
Limbo. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Nelson Algren Prize, and two Great Lakes Book Awards. She lives with her daughter in Florida, where she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami.