Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s work has appeared in AGNI, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, Massachusetts Review, Redivider, Green Mountains Review, The Pinch Journal, New Delta Review, South Carolina Review, Apalachee Review, Knicknackery, 94 Creations, Regarding Arts and Letters, and Arkansas International. He is the winner of the Iowa Review Fiction Award, the So to Speak Journal Short Story Award, and the William Faulkner Competition for Novel in Progress. Maurice’s first novel, We Cast A Shadow, was published by Random House in 2019.

New York Times Review of Maurice Carlos Ruffin’s We Cast A Shadow:
Nana Kwame Adjei- Brenyah. In This Ingenious Satire, a Father Goes to Extremes to Protect His Son From Racism. New York Times. February 13, 2019.