This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Maurice Carlos Ruffin
About
Maurice Carlos Ruffin, a native of New Orleans, is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. His work has appeared in Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas, the Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun, the LA Times, and elsewhere. His first novel, We Cast a Shadow, was published in 2019 and named a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice