Ladette Randolph is the editor-in-chief of Ploughshares magazine and is Distinguished Publisher-in-Residence at Emerson College. She is the award-winning author of A Sandhills Ballad (Nebraska 2011) and This Is Not the Tropics and is the editor of two anthologies including A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers both available in Bison Books editions. She is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize a Rona Jaffe Foundation grant four Nebraska Book Awards and the Virginia Faulkner Award.