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Kirstin Valdez Quade
Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer. Early life and educationQuade 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] CareerQuade'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 honorsLiterary awards
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