Mary Hood

Mary Hood (born September 16, 1946, in Brunswick, Georgia) is an American fiction writer renowned for her Southern literature, including short story collections such as How Far She Went, And Venus is Blue, and A Clear View of the Southern Sky, as well as the novel Familiar Heat. She has won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, multiple Townsend Prizes, the Lillian Smith Book Award, a Whiting Award, and was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2014.