Annie Hartnett is the award-winning author of three novels and two others works. Her Unlikely Animals won the Julia Ward Howe Prize for fiction and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Rabbit Cake, a finalist for the New England Book Award, was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year. She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. Along with writer Tessa Fontaine, she co-runs the Accountability Workshops for writers, helping them commit to routines and embrace the long, slow, joyful, terrible process of doing the work.