Career
She has written two novels: Motherland (Counterpoint, 2014) and Wilderness Run (Street Martin"s, 2003). Publishers Weekly gave her novel, Motherland, a starred review and wrote that "Fear, grief, and the will to survive fuse in this beautiful novel about the inner life of a German family in the final months of World World War World War II." People wrote that Motherland is "searing and honest, her book illuminates the reality of war away from the front lines.. with a compassion and depth of understanding that will touch your heart. Hummel was a Wallace Stegner fellow from 2005 to 2007 at Stanford University, where she currently teaches as a Jones Lecturer.