Ladee Hubbard, Wichita State’s 2024-25 visiting distinguished writer, is in residence at WSU from Feb. 17 to March 14, teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the fiction tutorial. Join a reading of her fiction at the latest Writing Now, Reading Now program at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 11 at the Ulrich Museum of Art. Everyone is welcome at this free event.
Hubbard is the author of two novels, “The Talented Ribkins,” which received the 2017 Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for Debut Fiction and the 2018 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and “The Rib King.”
She received a bachelor’s in English from Princeton University, a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a doctorate in folklore and mythology from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Writing Now, Reading Now is sponsored by the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English, Ulrich Museum of Art and Watermark Books & Cafe.