Ladee Hubbard is the author of two novels: The Talented Ribkins – which received the 2018 Hurston Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award – and the The Rib King, published in 2021. Her short story collection, The Last Suspicious Holdout was published in March 2022. She received a BA from Princeton University, a MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her writing has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship and The Berlin Prize among other fellowships and awards. She lives in New Orleans.

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