Ann is a novelist and Director of Recruitment for Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA). She has a B.A. in Latino Studies from Norwich University, an M.A. in sociology from UI&U and an MFA in Writing from VCFA. She also helped create VCFA’s winter Writing residency in Puerto Rico.

Ann’s first novel, Sister Chicas was released from New American Library in 2006. Her next novel, a young adult supernatural thriller titled Five Midnights, will be released by Tor Teen on June 4, 2019.

Her stories have appeared in several anthologies, including A Cup of Comfort for Mothers and Sons (2005) and Women Writing the Weird (2012) and she contributed to the Encyclopedia Latina: History, Culture, And Society in the United States edited by Ilan Stavans. Her essays have appeared in American Scholar, Vermont Woman, AARP, and Latina Magazines.

Ann lives in Vermont.

Website: anndavilacardinal.com

Twitter Username: @anndcardinal

Publications

• Five Midnights , Tor Teen / McMillan (June 4, 2019)
• Sister Chicas , New American Library (March 2006)

Employment

• Director of Recruitment at Vermont College of Fine Arts (December 1998 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts (July 2007)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Children's literature