W. Ralph Eubanks, National Fellow, is a writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the culture and literature of the American South. He is the author of three books: A Place Like Mississippi, The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South, and Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi’s Dark Past. His essays have been published in the Hedgehog Review, Vanity Fair, the American Scholar, the Georgia Review, and the New Yorker. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently a visiting professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi. He divides his time between Oxford, Mississippi, and Washington, DC.
