Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (Ausubel)

Author Bio
• Birth—ca. 1978-79
• Raised—Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
• Education—M.F.A., University of California, Irvine
• Awards—PEN Center USA for Literary Fiction (more below)
• Currently—lives in the San Francisco Bay area of California


Ramona Ausubel is an American writer, the author of two novels and a short story collection. She grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and now lives with her husband and children in the San Francisco Bay area. She holds an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.

Writing
Ausubel's novels include Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (2016) and No One is Here Except All of Us (2012). Her collection of stories is titled A Guide to Being Born (2013).

Her work has also appeared in The New Yorker, One Story, Electric Literature, FiveChapters, Green Mountains Review, Slice, among others. It has been collected in The Best American Fantasy, Paris Review online.

Her stories have also been included a list of "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2008″ in the Best American Short Stories and three times as a "Notable" story in the Best American Non-Required Reading.
 
Recognition and honors
Ausubel is a winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She has also been a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, and long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Story Award and the International Impac Dublin Literary Award. She has also been a finalist for the Puschart Prize and a Fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. While in graduate school, she won the Glenn Schaeffer Award in Fiction and served as editor of Faultline Journal of Art & Literature.

Ausubel has taught and lectured at the University of California, Irvine, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Pitzer College and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has served as a mentor for the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices program. Currently, she is a faculty member of the Low-Residency MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. (Adapted from the author's website.)