Ladee Hubbard is the author of two novels: The Talented Ribkins (2017), which received the 2018 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and The Rib King (2021). Her collection of short stories, The Last Suspicious Holdout, is forthcoming in March 2022. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Oxford American, Virginia Quarterly Review, Callaloo, Guernica, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. She received a BA from Princeton University, a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is a recipient of, among other awards and fellowships, a Berlin Prize, a Radcliffe Institute fellowship, and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She is currently writing her third novel.

Ana Paulina Lee is a cultural historian and assistant professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University where she teaches courses on modern Brazilian literature, film, and visual cultures. She is the author of Mandarin Brazil: Race, Representation, and Memory (Stanford University Press), winner of the 2019 Antonio Candido Book Prize for Best Book in the Humanities.

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