Kirstin Valdez Quade

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]

Kirstin Valdez Quade
Quade at 2015 Texas Book Festival
OccupationWriter, Professor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPhillips Exeter Academy[1]
Stanford University
GenreFiction, short story
Years active2009—present

Career

Quade's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Narrative Magazine,[3] The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere.[4] 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.[5]

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.[4] 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.[6][5]

Awards and honors

References
  1. "Kirstin Valdez Quade". Phillips Exeter Academ. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  2. Kirstin Valdez Quade. "'Night at the Fiestas'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
  3. "Kirstin Valdez Quade". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  4. "A Reading with Skip Horack and Kirstin Valdez Quade - Stanford Arts". stanford.edu.
  5. "Writer Kirstin Valdez Quade to Join Princeton's Creative Writing Faculty". Lewis Center for the Arts. 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2017-06-09.
  6. "U-M Department of English: People: Profile View: Kirstin Valdez Quade". umich.edu. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015.
  7. "Narrative Prize". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  8. "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards". ronajaffefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
  9. "Kirstin Valdez Quade, 5 Under 35, 2014, The National Book Foundation". nationalbook.org.
  10. "The O. Henry Prize Stories". RandomHouse. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  11. Alexandra Alter (March 17, 2016). "'The Sellout' Wins National Book Critics Circle's Fiction Award". New York Times. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
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