W. Ralph Eubanks is the author of A Place Like Mississippi (2021 Timber Press), a tour of the landscape of Mississippi and the many ways this landscape has informed the work of some of America's most treasured authors. His other books include Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey Into Mississippi's Dark Past (2003 Basic Books) and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South (2011 HarperCollins). His next book, When It's Darkness on the Delta: How America's Richest Soil Became Its Poorest Land, which focuses on the Mississippi Delta, will be published January 13, 2026 by Beacon Press.

He has contributed articles to the Washington Post Outlook and Style sections, WIRED, The Hedgehog Review,The Wall Street Journal, The American Scholar, The New Yorker, and National Public Radio. 

Eubanks has received many awards and distinguished fellowships, including a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship, fellowship at the New America Foundation, 2021-2022 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and 2023 Mississippi Governor's Arts Award for excellence in literature and as a cultural ambassador for Mississippi.