and Listen. He previously worked
at the Washington City Paper and
has written for Sports Illustrated, the
Atlantic, GQ, and Play: The New York
Times Sports Magazine. He was born
and raised in New Orleans and is a
graduate of Brown University. He
lives in Washington, D.C.
Laura
Lippman
is the New
York Times
bestselling
author of
acclaimed
stand-alone novels and the award-
winning Tess Monaghan series. Her
most recent novel was Lady in the
Lake (July 2019) and her first essay
collection, My Life as a Villainess, will
be released in May 2020. She lives in
Baltimore.
Elizabeth
Little is the
Los Angeles
Times–
bestselling
author
of Dear
Daughter, Pretty as a Picture, and
two works of nonfiction, Biting
the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a
Language Fanatic and Trip of the
Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in
Search of America’s Languages. Her
writing has also appeared in the New
York Times, Wall Street Journal, and
Los Angeles Review of Books, among
others. Dear Daughter, her debut
thriller, was nominated for the Barry
and Macavity Awards for Best First
Novel, longlisted for the CWA John
Creasey Dagger, and won the Strand
Critics Award for Best First Novel.
Her most recent novel is Pretty as a
Picture.
James
Long is an
Acquisitions
Editor
with the
LSU Press.
He holds
a B.A. in English from St. Mary’s
University and a Ph.D. in English
from Louisiana State University.
His dissertation won the Josephine
A. Roberts Alumni Association
Distinguished Dissertation Award in
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences.
He has published academic articles
on Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore
Cooper, and Herman Melville, as
well as journalism profiling arts and
music events in Louisiana.
Richard
Louth is a
Professor of
English at
Southeastern
Louisiana
University,
where he teaches courses in Living
Writers, Louisiana Literature, and
Creative Writing, and received the
university’s award for Teaching
Excellence. Founding Director of
the Southeastern Louisiana Writing
Project, he created the “New Orleans
Writing Marathon” and has led
Writing Marathons in cities across
the U.S. for over fifteen years.
He edited The Writing Marathon:
In Good Company Revealed, and
his fiction and essays have been
published in Louisiana in Words,
Country Roads, and Louisiana
Literature. In 2017, he was awarded
the Light Up for Literacy Award by
the Louisiana Endowment for the
Humanities.
Margaret
Lovecraft
began
working at
LSU Press
in 1991. She
has cycled
through the manuscript editorial
department, the marketing
department, and the acquisitions
department; most recently she has
come full circle and is back in the
manuscript editorial department.
Given her bad ideas for cover designs,
it’s a good thing she steered clear of
the production department.
Robert
Mann,
journalist
and political
historian,
holds the
Manship
Chair at the Manship School of
Mass Communication at Louisiana
State University. He is the author of
critically acclaimed political histories
of the U.S. civil rights movement,
the Vietnam War, American wartime
dissent, and the 1964 presidential
election. Mann served as a senior
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