Ladette Randolph is the editor-in-chief of Ploughshares, the editor of three literary anthologies, and the author of the novels Haven’s Wake and the award-winning A Sandhills Ballad and the short-story collection This Is Not the Tropics. She is on the faculty of the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Department at Emerson College and is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe grant, a Virginia Faulkner Award, a Best New American Voices citation, and two Nebraska Book Awards. She currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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