Ramona Ausubel is the national bestselling author of five books, most recently The Last Animal. She is the recipient of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and has been a finalist for both the California and Colorado Book Awards and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, One Story, Tin House, the Oxford American, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She is a professor at Colorado State University and lives in Boulder, Colorado with her family.

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