Ladee Hubbard

Ladee Hubbard is the author of the novels The Talented Ribkins and The Rib King as well as the short story collection, The Last Suspicious Holdout. Her work has received a Hurston Wright Legacy Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Berlin Prize and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship, among other accolades. She received her BA in English from Princeton University, a MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Wisconsin, Madison and a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ladee Hubbard will be working on her novel, The Descendants, which places the 1980s War on Drugs in dialogue with the larger history of African Americans being used in medical experiments in the United States. The novel also considers parallels between anxiety over the integrity of the U.S. border and internal segregation through which the marginalization of certain populations has historically been physically enacted through practices such as Jim Crow Laws, redlining, and the streamlining of certain communities into the prison system.