©Craig Mulcahy

C. Morgan Babst is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana. She studied writing at NOCCA, Yale, and NYU, and her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Washington Post, Saveur, Oxford American, Guernica, Garden and Gun, the Harvard Review, and the New Orleans Review, among others. Her debut novel, The Floating World, was named one of the best books of 2017 by Kirkus, Amazon, Southern Living, and the Dallas Morning News and was a New York Times Editors’ Pick.

Schedule

10:15 am to 11:15 am

State Capitol, House Committee Room 2

Unfamiliar Places: Historical Fiction

with Allison Alsup, Yuri Herrera, Phil Oakley, and moderator C. Morgan Babst

Moderator