Ann Packer was born in Stanford, California, and educated at Yale University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the novels Songs Without Words; The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, for which she received a Great Lakes Book Award and the Kate Chopin Literary Award; and The Children’s Crusade (Scribner, 2015). She is also the author of the collections Mendocino and Other Stories, which includes work that appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 1992, and Swim Back to Me: Stories. Packer lives in Northern California.
Photograph by Elena Seibert.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Narrative 10, a feature, in Winter 2015
- Walk for Mankind, a novella, in Spring 2011
- Molten, a short story, in Fall 2009