Discipline: Literature – fiction

Ladee Hubbard

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: New Orleans, LA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2019

Ladee Hubbard is the author of the novel The Talented Ribkins which received the Ernest J. Gaines Award and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction. She is also a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. Her short stories have appeared in Guernica and Virginia Quarterly Review among other venues; her nonfiction has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement. While at MacDowell she worked on a draft of a new novel. Her second novel, The Rib King, will be published in the fall of 2020.

Studios

Phi Beta

Ladee Hubbard worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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