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Maurice Carlos Ruffin, a Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of the National Bestseller The American Daughters, as well as The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, a One Book One New Orleans selection which was longlisted for the Story Prize. His debut, We Cast a Shadow, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. All three books were New York Times Editor’s Choice selections. Ruffin is the recipient of the Iowa Review Award in fiction and the Louisiana Writer Award.

Schedule

10:15 am to 11:15 am
A.Z. Young Park, Author Tent A
Echoes of Atrocity: Fact Based Novels of Police Brutality, State Corruption, and Political Violence
Christopher Louis Romaguera, Charras: A True Novel of the Assassination that Roiled the Yucatan by Hernán Lara Zavala
John Warner Smith, Murders at Mer Rouge
Amos Jasper Wright IV, The Battle of Danziger Bridge: A Novel
with moderator Maurice Carlos Ruffin

1:00 pm to 1:45 pm
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
Past Stories, Present Reckonings: Race, Identity, and Belonging
cc ECK, Ghost Gun: A Novel
P.C. Verrone, Rabbit, Fox, Tar: A Novel
with moderator Maurice Carlos Ruffin

2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
State Library, First Floor, Seminar Center
Under the Surface: Short Stories and Novels of Masking, Power, and Personal Reckonings
Addie E. Citchens, Dominion: A Novel
T. Clark, All This Want (and I Can't Get None): Stories
Rob Franklin, Great Black Hope: A Novel
Che Yeun, Tailbone: A Novel
with moderator Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Moderator