Maria Hummel is an American writer. Her poetry collection, ''House and Fire'', was winner of the 2013 APR/Hickman First Book Prize. She has written five novels: ''Goldenseal'' (Counterpoint, 2024), ''Lesson in Red'' (Counterpoint, 2021), ''Still Lives'' (Counterpoint, 2018), ''Motherland'' (Counterpoint, 2014) and ''Wilderness Run'' (St. Martin's, 2003). ''Still Lives'' was the August 2018 pick for the Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine book club. Paula L. Woods (''Los Angeles Times'') called the book "a stunning achievement for a writer who perfectly captures an outsider’s ambivalence about the city’s pluses and minuses, and most notably its sensational crimes and the dark angels we make of its victims." ''

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'' gave Hummel's novel, ''Motherland'', a

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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...." ''

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'' 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. Hummel was a Wallace

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from 2005 to 2007 at

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, and a Jones Lecturer there from 2009 to 2016. Since 2016, she has taught in the English department at the

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Works

*''Wilderness Run'', St Martin's Press, 2002, *''Motherland'', Counterpoint, 2014, *''Still Lives'', Counterpoint, 2018, *''Lesson in Red'', Counterpoint, 2021, *''Goldenseal'', Counterpoint, 2024,

References

American women poets American women novelists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers Stegner Fellows Stanford University faculty {{US-poet-stub