Ladee Hubbard

<p>Ladee Hubbard is the author of <em>The Rib King</em> and <em>The Talented Ribkins</em>, which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. Her writing has appeared in <em>Guernica</em>,<em> The Times Literary Supplement</em>,<em> Copper Nickel</em> and <em>Callaloo</em>. Hubbard is a recipient of a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, a Berlin Prize Fellowship, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She has also received fellowships from MacDowell, Art Omi, the Sacatar Foundation, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Hedgebrook, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Born in Massachusetts and raised in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida, Ladee Hubbard currently lives in New Orleans.</p>