C Morgan BabstC. Morgan Babst was born and raised in New Orleans and studied writing at Yale with Robert Stone, Kate Walbert, and Amy Bloom. She and her family evacuated New Orleans one day before Hurricane Katrina made landfall. Some months later, at a Katrina beefit in Manhattan, she met a fellow New Orleanian, and she married him. Eleven years later, she returned home to New Orleans to build a life with her husband and young daughter. Read More Read Less