Ann Pancake

Fiction Writer

Seattle, WA

Washington US

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Anthologies:

New Stories From the South: The Year's Best 2010 (Algonquin Books, 2010)

Pushcart Prize XXIX: Best of the Small Presses (Pushcart Press, 2005)

Short Takes (Norton, 2005)

New Stories from the South: The Year's Best 2004 (Algonquin Books, 2004)

Books:

Strange As This Weather Has Been (Counterpoint Press, 2007)

Given Ground (University Press of New England, 2001)

Prizes won:

Whiting Writers Award;

Pushcart Prize;

Bakeless Prize;

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant;

Notable Mention in Best American Short Stories for “Arsonists”;

Thomas D. and Lily Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature;

Brenda Ueland Fiction Prize;

Finalist for the 2008 Washington State Book Award, Strange As This Weather Has Been;

Finalist for the 2008 Orion Book Award, Strange As This Weather Has Been;

2007 Weatherford Prize for best fiction/poetry about Appalachia, Strange As This Weather Has Been;

Plattner Award for Nonfiction;

Doris Roberts/William Goyen Fellowship in Fiction, the Christopher Isherwood
Foundation;

Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship;

Julia Peterkin Prize;

West Virginia Commission on the Arts Fellowship;

Glasgow Prize for Given Ground;

First Place, New Millennium Writings, Creative Nonfiction;

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Richmond

Raised in:

Romney, WV

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Last update: Jul 15, 2011