Join American Short Fiction for the latest installment of My Constellation of 8 on October 26th at 6:30 p.m. CST, featuring award-winning author Kirstin Valdez Quade in conversation about eight of her literary influences with ASF‘s Coeditor Adeena Reitberger. All book sales will benefit Collected Works Bookstore in Santa Fe. Live closed captions are available for all Google Chrome users.
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About Kirstin Valdez Quade
Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds, which is shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. It was selected for Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club, the Barnes & Noble Book Club, BuzzFeed’s book club, and was the Indie Book of the Month. Her story collection, Night at the Fiestas (W. W. Norton), won 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, a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, and was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. It was named a New York Times Notable Book and a best book of 2015 by the San Francisco Chronicle and the American Library Association. Kirstin is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor at Princeton.
About Collected Works Bookstore
For over 40 years, Collected Works Bookstore has served as Santa Fe’s source for all things literary. They are Santa Fe’s oldest locally-owned independent bookstore, nestled just blocks away from the historic downtown Plaza.
Sponsors
This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
