Dogfish Presents: Rita Bullwinkel and Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Dogfish presents authors Rita Bullwinkel and Maurice at 7 pm on Thursday, October 25, at 2448 N. Villere.

RITA BULLWINKEL’s writing has been published in Tin House, Conjunctions, Vice, NOON, and Guernica. She is a recipient of grants and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hawthornden Castle, and The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. Both her fiction and her translation have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. She is an Editor at Large at McSweeney’s. She live in San Francisco. This is her first book

MAURICE CARLOS RUFFIN is a recipient of an Iowa Review Award in fiction and was the winner of the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for Novel-in-Progress. His work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, and Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas. A native of New Orleans, he is a graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop and a member of the Peauxdunque Writers Alliance. His novel “We Cast a Shadow” will be published by One World in January 2019.