United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Yow, Dede2003-09-18Encyclopedia article about Mary Hood. Mary Hood is best known for her work as a short-story writer, although she regularly publishes reviews and essays in popular and literary magazines. Hood's first collection of stories, How Far She Went (1984), won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction (named for Georgia writer Flannery O'Connor) and the Southern Review / Louisiana State University Short Fiction Award. Two years later And Venus Is Blue (1986), Hood's second collection, won the Townsend Prize for Fiction, the Dixie Council of Authors and Journalists Author-of-the-Year Award, and the Lillian Smith Book Award (named for Georgia writer Lillian Smith and administered by the Southern Regional Council).text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Hood, MaryWomen authors, American--GeorgiaWomen novelists, American--GeorgiaMary Hood (b. 1946)Text