Kirstin Valdez Quade
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 |
| Website | |
| kirstinvaldezquade | |
Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer.
Early life and education
[edit]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]
Career
[edit]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] She was a 2021 James Merrill Fellow in Stonington, CT.
Awards and honors
[edit]Literary awards
[edit]| 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] | |
| 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 | |||
Honors
[edit]- 2009–2011 Wallace Stegner Fellow
- 2021 James Merrill Fellow
Bibliography
[edit]- —— (2015). Night at the Fiestas: Stories. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393242980.
- —— (2021). The Five Wounds: A Novel. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393242836.
References
[edit]- ^ "Kirstin Valdez Quade". Phillips Exeter Academ. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "U-M Department of English: People: Profile View: Kirstin Valdez Quade". umich.edu. Archived from the original on July 14, 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Kirstin Valdez Quade". Narrative Magazine. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ Kirstin Valdez Quade (24 March 2015). "Night at the Fiestas". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-09-17.
- ^ Kirstin Valdez Quade. "The Five Wounds". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 2021-01-28.
- ^ "2022 Winners". American Library Association. 17 October 2021. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- ^ "The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards". ronajaffefoundation.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-31. Retrieved 2015-07-11.
- ^ "Narrative Prize". Narrative Magazine. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "The O. Henry Prize Stories". RandomHouse. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Kirstin Valdez Quade Wins The Center for Fiction 2021 First Novel Prize for The Five Wounds". Center for Fiction. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
External links
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- KirstinValdezQuade.com - Official Website
- Kirstin Valdez Quade's faculty profile at the Lewis Center for the Arts
- Best Advice on writing at Narrative Magazine
- Night at the Fiestas, a book review at The New York Times
- Interview with Kirstin Valdez Quade at NPR
| International | |
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| National | |
| Other | |
- Living people
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women academics
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- Hispanic and Latino American novelists
- Hispanic and Latino American short story writers
- Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
- Stanford University alumni
- University of Oregon alumni
- Stanford University faculty
- University of Michigan faculty
- Stegner Fellows
- Writers from Albuquerque, New Mexico