Mary Hood Writer

Mary Hood (born September 16, 1946 in Brunswick, Georgia) is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored three short story collections - How Far She Went, And Venus is Blue and A Clear View of the Southern Sky - two novellas - And Venus is Blue (also the title of her second short story collection) and Seam Busters - and a novel, Familiar Heat. She also regularly publishes essays and reviews in literary and popular magazines.