Ann Cummins is an American fiction writer. She was born in Durango, Colorado, and grew up in New Mexico. She is a graduate of writing programs at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona. She is the author of a short story collection, Red Ant House (2003), and a novel, Yellowcake (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).^[1] Cummins lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University,^[2] and in Oakland, California, with her husband, the musician S. E. Willis.

Yellowcake is about two families, Irish-catholic and Navajo, that are struggling with the laws of uranium mining.^[3]

In 2002 Cummins was a recipient of a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship.^[4]