Maria Hummel

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 three novels: Still Lives (Counterpoint, 2018), Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014) and Wilderness Run (St. Martin's, 2003).[1]

For the German Franciscan sister and artist, see Maria Innocentia Hummel.

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 was a Jones Lecturer from 2009 to 2016. Since 2016, she has taught in the English department at the University of Vermont.[4]

Works
  • Wilderness Run, St Martin's Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0312287573
  • Motherland, Counterpoint, 2014, ISBN 978-1619022379
  • Still Lives, Counterpoint, June 2018, ISBN 978-1619021112

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" (PDF). University of Vermont.


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