Maurice Ruffin

Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Assistant Professor
JD, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
225-578-3021
profruffin@lsu.edu 
212-S Allen Hall

Biography

Maurice Carlos Ruffin is the author of The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You, which was published by One World Random House in August 2021. His first book, We Cast a Shadow, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the PEN America Open Book Prize. Ruffin is the winner of several literary prizes, including the Iowa Review Award in fiction. A New Orleans native, Ruffin is a professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State University, and the 2020-2021 John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.

Area(s) of Interest

Creative Writing, American Literature

Curriculum Vitae