Biography:

New York Times best-selling author A. Manette Ansay lives and writes east of Boulder, Colorado, where she enjoys helping high school students (and their families) through the college planning, essay writing, and application process. She also volunteers as Writer in Residence for Friends of Coal Creek, running community writing workshops and connecting teens with natural spaces. She is Professor Emerita at The University of Miami, where she directed the MFA program, taught courses in fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, and advised and mentored undergraduate and graduate students.

Manette’s novels include Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club Selection, and Midnight Champagne, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as Sister, River Angel, Blue Water and Good Things I Wish You. She has also published a memoir, Limbo, and a short story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says, which won the AWP Short Fiction Series Prize. Honors and Awards include the Chancellor’s Award from the University of Wisconsin/Whitewater, the Stillwater Society Presidential Award for Achievement from the University of Maine, the Banta Prize from the Wisconsin Librarians Association, two Great Lakes Book Awards from the Great Lakes Booksellers Association, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, and a Pushcart Prize for Fiction.

Manette is a member of the Rocky Mountain Association for College Admissions Counseling.