LADEE HUBBARD

AWARD-WINNING Novelist + Scholar

located near: New Orleans, LA

request fees & availability

EXPERTISE

African American History and Culture
African American Literature and Performance
Marginalized Women in Literature
Fiction
Short Stories

EVENT TYPES

KEYNOTES
LECTURES
FIRESIDE CHATS
PANELS
WORKSHOPS
BOOK TALKS & READINGS
VIRTUAL EVENTS
INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
FESTIVALS
INTERVIEWS

Ladee Hubbard’s Bio

Ladee Hubbard is the author of two novels: The Talented Ribkins which received the 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the 2018 Hurston-Wright Award for Debut Fiction, and The Rib King (2021). The Last Suspicious Holdout (2022), her collection of short stories, explores the relationships between friends, family and strangers in a Black neighborhood over fifteen years. She is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, The Berlin Prize and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She received a 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.