C. Morgan Babst (born November 4, 1980) is an American writer.[1]
Life and education edit
Babst is a native of New Orleans but spent eleven years in New York City following Hurricane Katrina. After studying creative writing at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, she went on to study French and Russian literature at Yale, from which she graduated cum laude. In 2008, she earned an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from N.Y.U.[2]
Career edit
Her debut novel, The Floating World, was named one of the Best Books of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews, Amazon, The Dallas Morning News, and Southern Living. The New York Times called The Floating World an elegy for post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.[3][4] The Irish Times called it an excellent debut charting "a family's chaos after Hurricane Katrina."[5] A review in NPR says the book described the "days after Katrina in knowing and poetic detail."[6]
Her essay "The House of Myth: On the Architecture of White Supremacy," published in Oxford American, was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020 and her essay, “Death Is a Way to Be,” published in Guernica Magazine, was selected as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2016. Her nonfiction, which tends to focus on New Orleans themes, has been published in The Washington Post, Guernica, the Oxford American, Saveur, Garden and Gun, Lenny Letter, and LitHub. Babst's short fiction has been published in Bayou Magazine, The Literary Review, The Butter, jmww, The Harvard Review, and The New Orleans Review.
Books edit
The Floating World: A Novel
References edit
- ^ "New novels about New Orleans".
- ^ "Workman Publishing". 2017-01-09.
- ^ Sexton, Margaret Wilkerson (5 January 2018). "A Debut Novelist's Elegy for Post-Katrina New Orleans". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ "Meet C. Morgan Babst in Dallas as she discusses her stunning novel, 'The Floating World'". Dallas News. 6 November 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ Gilmartin, Sarah. "The Floating World review: Shelter from the storm". The Irish Times. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ "Family Drama Against A Flooded Backdrop In 'The Floating World'". Npr.org. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
External links edit
- Video of conversation with Scott Timberg LiveTalks Los Angeles
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