Ladette Randolph is the director of the nationally-renowned journal Ploughshares and a Distinguished Publisher-in-Residence in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing program at Emerson College, Boston. A former acquiring editor and interim director at University of Nebraska Press, she is the author of the novel A Sandhills Ballad, the short story collection This Is Not the Tropics, and editor of two anthologies, A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers and The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers. She is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation grant, two Nebraska Book Awards, and the Virginia Faulkner Award from Prairie Schooner. Her fiction has been reprinted in Best New American Voices.
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Interview with Randolph and a reading of her fiction
Randolph interviewed by Newtonville Books