Ann Wadsworth was born and raised in St. Louis, and now lives in Boston. She has degrees in English from Berea College, the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and a certificate of proficiency in Italian language and literature from the Italian University for Foreigners in Perugia, Italy.

Her first novel, Light, Coming Back (Alyson 2001), was shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Prize, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award, and was a Book of the Month Club selection. It was translated into French and German in 2006, both with the title Mrs. Medina. Her work on Light, Coming Back and her most recent novel, Ferragosto (completed 2014), was supported by a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony and a Wellspring Grant from the Boston Athenaeum. Her short stories have appeared in Christopher Street Magazine (including its anthology Aphrodisiac) and Blithe House Quarterly, and her writing has appeared in a variety of publications as noted in the “In Print” section of this web site.

Italian University for Foreigners, Perugia. Photo by Keith Henize, 2013