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Maria Hummel on Rewriting Existing Stories and Models
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Maria Hummel on Rewriting Existing Stories and Models

Hummel's GOLDENSEAL was released in January 2024
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Today we get to hear from Maria Hummel whose most recent novel, GOLDENSEAL, was released in January. Maria and I will be talking about the advantages and pitfalls of rewriting an existing fictional story and revising existing fictional models.

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Maria Hummel is a novelist and poet. Her books include GoldensealLesson in Red, a follow-up to Still Lives, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, a Book of the Month Club pick, and a BBC Culture Best Book of 2018; Motherland, a San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year; and House and Fire, winner of the APR/Honickman Poetry Prize. She is also the winner of a Stegner Fellowship, a Bread Loaf Fellowship, and the Pushcart Prize. Hummel worked for many years as an arts editor and journalist, and as a writer/editor for The Museum of Contemporary Art, experience that informed Still Lives and Lesson in Red. She also taught creative writing at Stanford University and Colorado College, and is now a full professor at the University of Vermont. She lives in Vermont with her husband and sons.

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