- MFA University of North Carolina, 1998
Areas of expertise
Creative writing
BIO
Maria Hummel is a professor in the English department who specializes in creative writing. She has written five novels, among them Goldenseal (2024), which was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Clark Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Vermont Book Award, and Still Lives (2018), which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, an Amazon Best Mystery/Thriller of the Year, and a BBC Culture Book of the Year. Hummel's poetry collection House and Fire, won the 2013 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, and her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Narrative, The Sun, The New York Times, and the centenary anthology The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine.
The winner of a Stegner Fellowship, Bread Loaf Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize, Hummel has been praised for fiction that is “savvy and lyrical” (Wall Street Journal) and “deeply affecting” (Los Angeles Times), and poetry that is “stunning… simple and deep, brimming with love and pain” (The Rumpus). Her other awards include a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and fellowships to the Community of Writers and Vermont Studio Center. Hummel worked for many years as an arts editor and journalist, and as a writer/editor for The Museum of Contemporary Art, experiences that informed her novels and her approach to teaching.
Courses
Creative Writing
Publications
Maria Hummel Publications (DOCX)
Awards and Achievements
- Vermont Book Award Finalist (2025)
- Clark Fiction Prize Longlist (2025)
- Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist (2024)
- UC-Berkeley Simpson Literary Prize Longlist (2019)
- APR/Honickman First Book in Poetry Prize (2013)
- Pushcart Prize (2011)
- Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize (2010, 2011)
- Community of Writers Workshop Oakley Hall Fellowship (Fiction, 2009)
- Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award (2009)
- Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry (2005–07)
Bio
Maria Hummel is a professor in the English department who specializes in creative writing. She has written five novels, among them Goldenseal (2024), which was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Clark Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Vermont Book Award, and Still Lives (2018), which was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick, an Amazon Best Mystery/Thriller of the Year, and a BBC Culture Book of the Year. Hummel's poetry collection House and Fire, won the 2013 APR/Honickman First Book Prize, and her poetry, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Narrative, The Sun, The New York Times, and the centenary anthology The Open Door: 100 Poems, 100 Years of Poetry Magazine.
The winner of a Stegner Fellowship, Bread Loaf Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize, Hummel has been praised for fiction that is “savvy and lyrical” (Wall Street Journal) and “deeply affecting” (Los Angeles Times), and poetry that is “stunning… simple and deep, brimming with love and pain” (The Rumpus). Her other awards include a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, the Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award, and fellowships to the Community of Writers and Vermont Studio Center. Hummel worked for many years as an arts editor and journalist, and as a writer/editor for The Museum of Contemporary Art, experiences that informed her novels and her approach to teaching.
Courses
Creative Writing
Publications
Awards and Achievements
- Vermont Book Award Finalist (2025)
- Clark Fiction Prize Longlist (2025)
- Joyce Carol Oates Prize Longlist (2024)
- UC-Berkeley Simpson Literary Prize Longlist (2019)
- APR/Honickman First Book in Poetry Prize (2013)
- Pushcart Prize (2011)
- Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize (2010, 2011)
- Community of Writers Workshop Oakley Hall Fellowship (Fiction, 2009)
- Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award (2009)
- Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Poetry (2005–07)