Rabbit Cake (Hartnett) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1985-86
• Where—N/A
• Education—M.A., Middlebury College; M.F.A., University of Alabama
• Awards—Writer in Residence, Boston Public Library
• Currently—lives in Providence, Rhode Island


Annie Hartnett is the author of the 2017 debut novel Rabbit Cake. She received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Alabama and an MA from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English.

Hartnett was the 2013-2014 winner of the Writer in Residence Fellowship for the Associates of the Boston Public Library and has received awards and honors from the Bread Loaf School of English, McSweeney's, and Indiana Review.

She teaches at Grub Street, an independent writing center in Boston and lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband and their beloved border collie.

Personal touch
• Hartnett had an episode of sleepwalking in college after working on a paper for several nights in a row. She woke up in her plaid pajamas at a frat part; fortunately, she hasn't done it since.

• Hartnett's mother made rabbit cakes for Easter, and she herself has started making them, a lot of them. She takes the cakes with her when she visits bookstores on tour.

• When she was young, Hartnett drew comics. One was called "T-Rex & Bunnny-wunny-wunny," inspired by Calvin & Hobbes. It was about a dino who loved his stuffed bunny but couldn't stop himself from tearing it to shreds. His dino mother had to sew Bunny-wunny-wunny up again and again.

• Dolly Parton has been an obsession of Hartnett for years. The author admires Parton's humor, her straightforwardness, and the pride she takes in her work. (Adapted from the publisher and various online sources.)