Maria Hummel is the 2013 winner of theAPR/Honickman First Book Prize for her collection House and Fire. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Narrative, Creative Nonfiction,  and The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine. She is also the author of two novels: Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014) and Wilderness Run (St. Martin’s, 2003). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, she teaches at Stanford University and lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons.