Kirstin Valdez Quade

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds and Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She is the recipient of a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, the Rome Prize, a Stegner Fellowship, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at Princeton University.