Maria Hummel

Maria Hummel is an American writer. Her poetry collection, House and Fire, was winner of the 2013 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She has written two novels: Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014) and Wilderness Run (St. Martin's, 2003).[1]

Publishers Weekly gave her novel, Motherland, a starred review and wrote that "Fear, grief, and the will to survive fuse in this beautiful novel about the inner life of a German family in the final months of World War II...."[2] People wrote that Motherland is "searing and honest, her book illuminates the reality of war away from the front lines ... with a compassion and depth of understanding that will touch your heart.[3]

Hummel was a Wallace Stegner fellow from 2005 to 2007 at Stanford University, where she currently teaches as a Jones Lecturer.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Maria Hummel". Poetry Foundation.
  2. ↑ "Motherland". Publishers Weekly.
  3. ↑ Rogan, Helen; Westfall, Sandra; Jordan, Julie (January 27, 2014). "Picks and Pans Main: Books". People.
  4. ↑ "Maria Hummel". Stanford University.
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