Ann Packer
Ann Packer is a critically acclaimed American novelist known for emotionally complex, character-driven stories exploring family, marriage, and loss.
Her bestselling novels include The Children's Crusade, Songs Without Words, and The Dive from Clausen's Pier, which won the Kate Chopin Literary Award.
Her short fiction collections Mendocino and Other Stories and Swim Back to Me feature work published in The New Yorker and O. Henry Prize anthologies.
Born in Stanford, California, she attended Yale and Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages.
She divides her time among New York, the Bay Area, and Maine with husband Rafael Yglesias.
