Beth Ann Fennelly teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi, where she was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year. She’s won grants from the NEA, United States Artists, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Fennelly has published three poetry books (Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables) and a book of nonfiction (Great with Child), all with W. W. Norton, and she co-authored a novel with her husband, Tom Franklin, published by HarperCollins. Her forthcoming book, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-memoirs, will be published by Norton in fall 2017.