Ladee Hubbard is the author of the novel The Talented Ribkins, which received the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. She received a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2014 and in 2016 was the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Her short fiction has been published in Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, and Beloit Fiction Journal, among other publications. She lives in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she is currently working on her second novel.