 She is a graduate of writing programs at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona.She is the author of a short story collection, "Red Ant House" (2003), and a novel, "Yellowcake" (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).Cummins lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches creative writing at Northern Arizona University, and in Oakland, California, with her husband, the musician S. E. Willis.