About the Author

Ladette Randolph is the author of five books: three novels: Private Way, Haven’s Wake and A Sandhills Ballad, a short story collection, This is Not the Tropics, and a memoir, Leaving the Pink House, and is the recipient of numerous literary awards, including the Nebraska Book Award, a Rona Jaffe grant, a Pushcart Prize, a Virginia Faulkner award, and a citation from Best New American Voices.

A former acquiring editor at the University of Nebraska Press and former editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares, she is a co-owner, along with Heather Lundine, of the manuscript consulting firm Randolph Lundine.