First Draft - Ramona Ausubel

About this episode

Mitzi Rapkin interviews author Ramona Ausubel about her writing journey and new book.

Ramona Ausubel is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of the novel No One Is Here Except All of Us and the short story collection A Guide to Being Born. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review Daily, Best American Fantasy, and elsewhere, and has received special mentions in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She has been longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award and the Pushcart Prize. Her new book is Unstuck: A Writer's Guide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Mitzi Rapkin

Guest: Ramona Ausubel

Topics covered

• writing
• literature
• short stories
• author interview
• MFA programs

Keywords

• Ramona Ausubel
• MFA
• No One Is Here Except All of Us
• A Guide to Being Born
• Unstuck: A Writer's Guide

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of California, Irvine, The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review Daily

Books & works: No One Is Here Except All of Us, A Guide to Being Born, Best American Fantasy, Unstuck: A Writer's Guide, The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Nonrequired Reading

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