C. Morgan Babst

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C. Morgan Babst is a native of New Orleans. She studied writing at Yale and NYU, and her essays and short fiction have appeared in The Washington Post, Saveur, The Oxford American, Guernica, Garden and Gun, the Harvard Review, Lenny Letter, and the New Orleans Review, among others. Her debut novel, The Floating World, was named one of the best books of 2017 by Kirkus, Amazon, Southern Living, and the Dallas Morning News and was a New York Times Editors’ Pick.

Prize anthology mentions

Best American Essays 2016*

Best American Essays 2020*

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