A writer of great prestige, Ducornet was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, winner of the 2008 Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and twice honored by the Lannan Foundation. Coffee House Press is thrilled to have her name on our list. Ducornet is widely published in the US and abroad (including fiction, poetry, and children’s) and regularly anthologized in major fiction anthologies. Extensive interview available at Del Sol Literary Dialogues Ducornet was the inspiration for Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose That Number, due to a friendship with songwriter Donald Fagen while he was at Bard College. Ducornet gave him her phone number at a college party.