![]() ![]() ![]() It was a privilege to spend time with Quade, who was unfailingly generous during her visit. On October 19 th, 2017, Vanderbilt University’s MFA program hosted Kirstin Valdez Quade as part of the Visiting Writers Series. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Narrative, Guernica, The Southern Review, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Quade is also the recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and the 2013 Narrative Prize. It was a New York Times Notable Book, and was named a best book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the American Library Association. Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of the debut story collection, Night at the Fiestas, which received the John Leonard Prize from the National Book Critics Circle, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation. ![]()
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