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Trenton Doyle Hancock and Maurice Carlos Ruffin
About
Trenton Doyle Hancock is a Houston-based artist known for creating his own fantastical narrative known as The Moundverse. Hancock’s drawings, paintings, sculptures, and installations have been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions. His work is currently featured in Contemporary Focus: Trenton Doyle Hancock at The Menil Collection (through May 19) and will be the subject of Mind of the Mound: Critical Mass at MASS MoCA (opening March 9).
Maurice Carlos Ruffin has been a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and a winner of the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Novel-in-Progress. A native of New Orleans, Ruffin is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. He is the author of We Cast a Shadow from One World Random House.