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Kirstin Valdez Quade
Kirstin Valdez Quade
	Quade at 2015 Texas Book Festival
Born	Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Occupation	Writer, Professor
Language	English
Nationality	American
Education	Phillips Exeter Academy; Stanford University (BA); University of Oregon (MFA)
Genre	Fiction, short story
Years active	2009—present
Website
	kirstinvaldezquade.com

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. 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 Yorker, Narrative Magazine,^[6] The Best American Short Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere.^[3] Her writing weaves together themes of family, race, class, and coming-of-age, and unfold in New Mexico landscapes inspired by the author's own upbringing.^[5]

Her debut short story collection, Night at the Fiestas, received critical praise and won awards. A review in The New York Times labeled her stories "legitimate masterpieces" and called the book a "haunting and beautiful debut story collection."^[7] The Five Wounds, her debut novel, was published in 2021.^[8] The novel was shortlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.^[9] She was a 2021 James Merrill Fellow in Stonington, CT.

Awards and honors

Literary awards

Year	Work	Award		Result	Ref
2013	—	Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award	—	Won	^[10]
2013	"Nemecia"	Narrative Prize	—	Won	^[11]
2014	"Nemecia"	PEN/O. Henry Stories	—	Won	^[12]
2014	Night at the Fiestas	National Book Foundation	"5 Under 35 Award"	Won	^[13]
2015		National Book Critics Circle Award	John Leonard Prize	Won
2015		Southwest Books of the Year	—	Top Picks
2016		Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction	—	Won
2016		Young Lions Fiction Award	—	Shortlisted
2021	The Five Wounds	Center for Fiction First Novel Prize	—	Won	^[14]
2022		Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence	Fiction	Shortlisted
		Aspen Words Literary Prize	—	Shortlisted
		BookTube Prize	Fiction	Shortlisted
		Lambda Literary Award	Lesbian Fiction	Shortlisted
		Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award	—	Shortlisted
		Maya Angelou Book Award	—	Shortlisted
		Rosenthal Family Foundation Award	—	Nominated
		VCU Cabell First Novelist Award	—	Shortlisted