"What a pleasure it was to take a road trip with The Talented Ribkins, a simultaneously gifted and flawed family, sharp-witted but prone to making utterly human errors. Ladee Hubbard has given us a fresh and original debut novel." --Jami Attenberg, author of All Grown Up

Ladee Hubbard received a BA in English from Princeton University where she wrote a creative thesis under the direction of Toni Morrison. She completed an MFA in Dramatic Writing at New York University and a PhD in Folklore and Mythology at UCLA. She also received an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2014, where she worked with Lorrie Moore, Jesse Lee Kercheval and Judith Mitchell. Hubbard is the winner of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, the Faulkner-Wisdom Short Story Award, and taken third place in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Award and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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