Mary Hood

writer

Mary Hood is a short story writer, and regularly publishes reviews and essays in popular and literary magazines. Hood's first collection of stories, How Far She Went (1984), won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Southern Review / Louisiana State University Short Fiction Award. Two years later And Venus Is Blue, Hood's second collection, won the Townsend Prize for Fiction, the Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists Author of the Year Award, and the Lillian Smith Book Award. Following the publishing of Familiar Heat in 1995, she was named the John and Renee Grisham Southern Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. She was also the first writer in residence at Berry College in 1997 and 1998, and at Reinhardt College in 2001.