Writers in the Woods: W. Ralph Eubanks

Join us for an evening with acclaimed author and scholar W. Ralph Eubanks, our featured Writers in the Woods speaker. Eubanks is the author of the forthcoming When It’s Darkness on the Delta: How America’s Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land, to be released January 13, 2026. A distinguished voice in American letters, he is a Guggenheim Fellow, a New America Foundation National Fellow, and a Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Eubanks is the author of three previous nonfiction books and served for years as the director of publishing at the Library of Congress, shaping the nation’s literary and cultural record. His work explores history, memory, race, and place with uncommon depth and clarity.

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of today’s most insightful and influential writers as he discusses his forthcoming book and the stories that continue to shape the American landscape.