Maria Hummel is the author of Motherland, a novel, which earned starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Kirkus, and was one of BookPage’s top 20 books of 2014. Her poetry collection House and Fire won the 2013 APR/Honickman Prize, and her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in the Pushcart Prizes, Narrative, The Sun, and New England Review. She is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow and teaches at the University of Vermont. She attended the Community of Writers in 2009. www.mariahummel.com