Ramona Ausubel is the author of three novels and two story collections. Her most recent book, The Last Animal: a novel, was chosen by NPR, Kirkus and O, the Oprah Quarterly as a best book of 2023. Her work was chosen multiple times as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice selection, a Finalist for the California Book Award, Colorado Book Award and long-listed for the Story Prize. She is also the author of Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, No One is Here Except All of Us, Awayland and A Guide to Being Born. She is the recipient of the PEN/USA Fiction Award, the Cabell First Novelist Award and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Tin House, One Story, Ploughshares and many other journals.