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Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of We Cast a Shadow, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Open Book Award, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and International Dublin Literary Award. A recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction, he has been published in the Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, the Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance.


Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Understanding Voice in Fiction

"I write as a conductor, not as a performer."
August 13, 2021  By Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Being a Patriotic Black Southerner

"I know our past, and I know our pain."
July 3, 2019  By Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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The Effects of White Supremacy Are Non-Transferable

Maurice Ruffin on Watching People Mourn an America
That Never Was
November 17, 2016  By Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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Talking in New Orleans in the Age of Trump

What Real America Helped Us Understand
November 7, 2016  By Maurice Carlos Ruffin
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