Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Callaloo, New Delta Review, AGNI, The Pinch, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Rebecca Snedecker. He won the 2014* Iowa Review* Fiction Award, the 2014 So to Speak contest in fiction, and the 2014 William Faulkner–Wisdom Competition for a novel in progress. He is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance and the Melanated Writers Collective.