Ladette Randolph is an American author and editor.
Randolph is the author of five books: three novels: Private Way,[1] Haven’s Wake[2] and A Sandhills Ballad,[3] a short story collection, This is Not the Tropics,[4] and a memoir, Leaving the Pink House.
[5] She is the editor-in-chief of the literary journal Ploughshares at Emerson College and co-owner of the manuscript consulting firm Randolph Lundine.
[6] A long-time Nebraskan, she spent her childhood in the same part of west-central Nebraska where her family lived for five generations.
[7] Randolph is the recipient of four Nebraska Book Awards,[8] a Rona Jaffe grant,[9] a Pushcart Prize, a Virginia Faulkner award, and a citation from Best New American Voices.