Kirstin Valdez Quade
Kirstin Valdez Quade | |
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![]() Quade at 2015 Texas Book Festival | |
Occupation | Writer, Professor |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Phillips Exeter Academy[1] Stanford University |
Genre | Fiction, short story |
Years active | 2009—present |
Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer. Her debut short story collection, Night at the Fiestas, received critical praise and won awards. A review in the New York Times labeled her stories "legitimate masterpieces" and called the book a "haunting and beautiful debut story collection."[2] The Five Wounds, her debut novel, was published in April 2021.[3]
Career[]
Quade's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Narrative Magazine,[4] The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere.[5] Her writing weaves together themes of family, race, class, and coming-of-age, and unfold in New Mexico landscapes inspired by the author's own upbringing.[6]
She attended Phillips Exeter Academy and earned her BA from Stanford University and her MFA from the University of Oregon. From 2009 to 2011 she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University, where she also taught as a Jones Lecturer.[5] In 2014-15, she was the Delbanco Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. She is currently an assistant professor of creative writing at Princeton University.[7][6]
Awards and honors[]
- 2013 Narrative Prize for "Nemecia."[8]
- 2013 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award[9]
- 2014 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35 Award" for Night at the Fiestas[10]
- 2014 PEN/O. Henry Stories selection for "Nemecia."[11]
- 2016 John Leonard Prize, winner for Night at the Fiestas[12]
References[]
- ^ "Kirstin Valdez Quade". Phillips Exeter Academ. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ Kirstin Valdez Quade. "Night at the Fiestas". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
- ^ Kirstin Valdez Quade. "The Five Wounds". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "Kirstin Valdez Quade". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "A Reading with Skip Horack and Kirstin Valdez Quade - Stanford Arts". stanford.edu.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Writer Kirstin Valdez Quade to Join Princeton's Creative Writing Faculty". Lewis Center for the Arts. 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
- ^ "U-M Department of English: People: Profile View: Kirstin Valdez Quade". umich.edu. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015.
- ^ "Narrative Prize". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards". ronajaffefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ^ "Kirstin Valdez Quade, 5 Under 35, 2014, The National Book Foundation". nationalbook.org.
- ^ "The O. Henry Prize Stories". RandomHouse. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ Alexandra Alter (March 17, 2016). "'The Sellout' Wins National Book Critics Circle's Fiction Award". New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
External links[]
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