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