Ladee Hubbard, Wichita State’s 2024-25 visiting distinguished writer, is in residence at WSU from February 17 to March 14, teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the fiction tutorial. Join us when she presents a reading of her fiction at the latest Writing Now | Reading Now program at 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 11. Everyone is welcome at this free event.
Hubbard is the author of two novels, "The Talented Ribkins," which received the 2017 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and "The Rib King."
She received a BA in English from Princeton University, an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a PhD in Folklore and Mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Writing Now | Reading Now is sponsored by the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, WSU English Department, Ulrich Museum of Art, and Watermark Books and Cafe.
