Bestselling Novelist Ann Hood to Visit SNHU

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Bestselling Novelist Ann Hood Visits SNHU
For Workshop and Book Reading

Manchester, N.H. (Oct. 15, 2009) – Southern New Hampshire University is hosting bestselling novelist Ann Hood for a workshop, reading and book signing beginning Sunday, Oct. 25. Hood will be offering a workshop through The New Hampshire Writer’s Project on Sunday, Oct. 25, from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. She will be discussing expressing universal emotional truths. For More information or to register for the workshop, contact Kathy Wurtz at kwurtz@nhwritersproject.org  or visit NHWP’s Web site at http://www.nhwritersproject.org/.

On Monday, Oct. 26, Hood will be giving a reading, followed by a book signing and reception. The event will be held in SNHU's Robert Frost's Walker Auditorium beginning at 5:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

 “I had the privilege of meeting Ann in 2004, a little over a year after her daughter had passed away. I was immediately struck by Ann’s generosity of spirit and grace," says Diane Les Becquets, SNHU's director of Creative Writing program and assistant director of the MFA in Fiction & Nonfiction. "Her most recently published book, Comfort, A  Journey Through Grief, is intimate, powerful, and lasting – a book I could not put down, and a book I will not forget. Ann is an inspiration as a writer and as a person.  I am so grateful that my students and our community will have the gift of this experience.”

Hood, who is also serving as the visiting writer for the MFA's winter residency in February, will have books available for purchase at the event, and her books are now available in the SNHU bookstore.Hood is the author of ten books, including most recently the bestselling novel The Knitting Circle and the memoir Comfort: A Journey Through Grief, which was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and chosen as one of the top ten nonfiction books of 2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, Bon Appetit, Traveler, Food and Wine, More, Tin House, Glimmertrain, and The Paris Review. She has won a Best Spiritual Writing Award and two Pushcart Prizes.