Kirstin Valdez Quade | |
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 Quade at 2015 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer, Professor |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Phillips Exeter Academy [1] Stanford University (BA) University of Oregon (MFA) |
| Genre | Fiction, short story |
| Years active | 2009—present |
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Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer.
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 ]
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.
| Year | Work | Award | Result | Ref | |
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| 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 | Fiction | Shortlisted | ||
| Aspen Words Literary Prize | — | Shortlisted | |||
| BookTube Prize | Fiction | Shortlisted | |||
| 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 | |||
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