Ladette Randolph is the editor-in-chief of Ploughshares and on the faculty at Emerson College. She is the award-winning author of five books, including three novels: Private Way, A Sandhills Ballad (a NYTimes Editor's Choice book) and Haven’s Wake; a memoir Leaving the Pink House, and a short story collection This is Not The Tropics. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Virginia Faulkner award, and a Nebraska Book Award, and has been reprinted in Best New American Voices.