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Ramona Ausubel grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is the author of a new novel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, forthcoming in June, 2016 from Riverhead Books as well as the novel No One is Here Except All of Us (2012), and a collection of short stories A Guide to Being Born (2013). Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, she has also been a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and long-listed for the Frank OConnor International Story Award and the International Impac Dublin Literary Award. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine where she won the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Fiction and served as editor of Faultline Journal of Art & Literature.
Ramona has taught and lectured at the University of California, Irvine, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Pitzer College and the University of California, Santa Barbara and served as a mentor for the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices program. She is a faculty member of the Low-Residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Ramona has taught and lectured at the University of California, Irvine, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Pitzer College and the University of California, Santa Barbara and served as a mentor for the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices program. She is a faculty member of the Low-Residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Genres: Literary Fiction
New Books
Novels
No One Is Here Except All of Us (2012)
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (2016)
The Last Animal (2023)
Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (2016)
The Last Animal (2023)
Collections
A Guide to Being Born (2013)
Awayland (2018)
10 Stories for the Back to School Season (2018) (with Donald Barthelme, Clare Beams, Brit Bennett, Ladi Opaluwa, Matt de la Peña, Hannah Rahimi, Alanna Schubach and Deb Olin Unferth)
Awayland (2018)
10 Stories for the Back to School Season (2018) (with Donald Barthelme, Clare Beams, Brit Bennett, Ladi Opaluwa, Matt de la Peña, Hannah Rahimi, Alanna Schubach and Deb Olin Unferth)
Novellas and Short Stories
Ramona Ausubel recommends
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The Long Answer (2022)
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Embassy Wife (2021)
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Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer (2021)
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This Town Sleeps (2020)
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