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About C. Morgan Babst

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.

Interviews

Editorial Outtakes:
The Floating World  or, how to cut a whole book out of your book

American Short Fiction
October 9, 2018

Surviving New Orleans:
On Love, Death, and Life in a Hurricane

in conversation with ANNE GISLESON
LitHub
NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Flood of memories:
A New Orleans native revisits Katrina in her stunning debut novel

CHRIS VOGNAR
The Dallas Morning News
December 21, 2017

The Reading Life with Morgan Babst and David Fulmer

with SUSAN LARSON
WWNO
OCTOBER 17, 2017