Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of the debut novel The Five Wounds, as well as the story collection Night at the Fiestas, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for a debut book and the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction. Quade has also received the 2013 Narrative Prize and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. She is an associate professor at Stanford University.
Photograph by Holly Andres.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Another Star, a novel excerpt, in Spring 2021
- The Manzanos, a narrative outloud - video, in Fall 2016
- Best Advice, a feature, in Winter 2015
- The Manzanos, a short story, in Winter 2015
- Nemecia, a short story, in Fall 2012