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Maurice Carlos Ruffin

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Bio

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 Books

The American Daughters book cover

The American Daughters

Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Commanders of the Dining Room book cover

Commanders of the Dining Room

E.A. Maccannon
The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You book cover

The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You

Maurice Carlos Ruffin
We Cast a Shadow book cover

We Cast a Shadow

Maurice Carlos Ruffin
New Orleans Noir: The Classics book cover

New Orleans Noir: The Classics

Julie Smith
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