Kirstin Valdez Quade

Last updated

Kirstin Valdez Quade
Kirstin Valdez Quade 2015.jpg
Quade at 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
OccupationWriter, Professor
Language English
NationalityAmerican
Education Phillips Exeter Academy [1]
Stanford University (BA)
University of Oregon (MFA)
Genre Fiction, 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] [ needs update ] and will be returning to Stanford University in the Fall 2023.[ needs update ]

Contents

Career

Quade's work has appeared in The New Yorker , NarrativeMagazine, [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] She was a 2021 James Merrill Fellow in Stonington, CT.

Awards and honors

Literary awards

YearWorkAwardResultRef
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]
2015 National Book Critics Circle Award John Leonard Prize Won
Southwest Books of the Year—Top Picks
2016 Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction —Won
Young Lions Fiction Award —Shortlisted
2021 The Five Wounds Center for Fiction First Novel Prize —Won [14]
2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence FictionShortlisted
Aspen Words Literary Prize —Shortlisted
BookTube PrizeFictionShortlisted
Lambda Literary Award Lesbian Fiction Shortlisted
Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award —Shortlisted
Maya Angelou Book Award—Shortlisted
Rosenthal Family Foundation Award —Nominated
VCU Cabell First Novelist Award —Shortlisted

Honors

Bibliography

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. 1 2 "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. 1 2 "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. ↑ "Kirstin Valdez Quade Wins The Center for Fiction 2021 First Novel Prize for The Five Wounds". Center for Fiction . Retrieved December 20, 2021.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.