Kirstin Valdez Quade

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Kirstin Valdez Quade
Quade at 2015 Texas Book Festival
Quade at 2015 Texas Book Festival
BornAlbuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
OccupationWriter, Professor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhillips Exeter Academy[1]
Stanford University (BA)
University of Oregon (MFA)
GenreFiction, short story
Years active2009—present
Website
kirstinvaldezquade.com

Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer.

Early life and education

Quade was born to a white father and a Hispanic mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her father was a desert geologist and her family lived throughout the Southwestern United States, as well as in Australia.[2] 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.[3] 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[4][5] and will be returning to Stanford University in the Fall 2023.

Career

Quade's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Narrative Magazine,[6] The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere.[3] 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]

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."[7] The Five Wounds, her debut novel, was published in 2021.[8] The novel was shortlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.[9]

Awards and honors

Year Work Award Result Ref
2013 — Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award — Won [10]
"Nemecia" Narrative Prize — Won [11]
2014 PEN/O. Henry Stories — Won [12]
Night at the Fiestas National Book Foundation "5 Under 35 Award" Won [13]
2016 John Leonard Prize — Won [14]
2021 The Five Wounds Center for Fiction First Novel Prize — Won [15]

Bibliography

  • —— (2015). Night at the Fiestas: Stories. New York:
    ISBN 978-0-393-24298-0
    .
  • —— (2021).
    ISBN 978-0-393-24283-6
    .

References

  1. ^ "Kirstin Valdez Quade". Phillips Exeter Academ. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  2. ^ Reyes, Raul A. (27 April 2021). "A Latino family's love — and dysfunction in Kirstin Valdez Quade's 'The Five Wounds'". NBC News. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  3. ^ a b "A Reading with Skip Horack and Kirstin Valdez Quade - Stanford Arts". stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-07-11. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
  4. ^ "U-M Department of English: People: Profile View: Kirstin Valdez Quade". umich.edu. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Kirstin Valdez Quade". Narrative Magazine. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  7. ^ Kirstin Valdez Quade (24 March 2015). "Night at the Fiestas". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
  8. ^ Kirstin Valdez Quade. "The Five Wounds". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
  9. ^ "2022 Winners". American Library Association. 17 October 2021. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
  10. ^ "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards". ronajaffefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
  11. ^ "Narrative Prize". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  12. ^ "The O. Henry Prize Stories". RandomHouse. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
  13. ^ "Kirstin Valdez Quade, 5 Under 35, 2014, The National Book Foundation". nationalbook.org. Archived from the original on 2018-09-28. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
  14. New York Times
    . Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  15. Center for Fiction
    . Retrieved December 20, 2021.

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