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American writer

Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer.

Early life and education

Quade was born to a white father and a Hispanic mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Quade: I was out of college and living in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in when I started “Nemecia.” Several of the stories I wrote in graduate school.

Kirstin Valdez Quade writes short stories that wrestle with the bonds and obligations of family, faith, and place.

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of The Five Wounds, which is currently shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the Carnegie Medal for.

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize.

Kirstin Valdez Quade is a wanderer.

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

Quade's work has appeared in The New