Ramona Ausubel, a professor in the MFA program at Colorado State University, is the author of 3 novels and 2 story collections, including, most recently, The Last Animal, chosen by NPR, Kirkus and O, the Oprah Quarterly as a best book of 2023. Her other books are: Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, No One is Here Except All of Us, Awayland and A Guide to Being Born. Her work was chosen multiple times as a NY Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection, and she has won a number of prestigious awards, including the PEN/USA Fiction Award and the Cabell First Novelist Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Tin House, One Story, Ploughshares and many other journals.