W. Ralph Eubanks 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: A Journey Through A Real and Imagined Literary Landscape; Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi’s Dark Past; and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South. Eubanks has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and was a National Fellow at New America, and his writing has been published in the American Scholar, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. He is a Faculty Fellow and Writer in Residence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.