Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Maurice Carlos Ruffin has been a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction. A native of New Orleans, Ruffin is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. His work has appeared in Unfathomable City: a New Orleans Atlas, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, Massachusetts Review, the Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, and the LA Times. His first novel We Cast a Shadow was published in 2019 by One World Random House and named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.