Fiction Writer Kirstin Valdez Quade To Read at Seton Hall
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas (Norton, 2015), which 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.
The New York Times calls Night at the Fiestas a "haunting and beautiful debut story collection" that contains "legitimate masterpieces." Elle says: "[a] sparkling debut collection . . . features dreamers and schemers whose lives pulsate with wild hopes, hard luck, stunning secrets, and saving grace."
Quade is the recipient of the John Guare Writer’s Fund Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, 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.
The event is free and open to the public. All are welcome. Register here.
About the Series:
Poetry-in-the-Round has brought some of the best contemporary writers from around
the world to Seton Hall University for the past three decades. Some of those visitors
have included Jennifer Egan, Susan Choi, Dinaw Mengestu, Ben Lerner, Christine Schutt,
Heidi Julavits, Ben Marcus, Jenny Offill, Gary Shteyngart, Kaitlyn Greenidge, Karen
Russell, Alexandra Kleeman, Helen Phillips, Major Jackson, Deborah Eisenberg, Susan
Orlean, Jonathan Franzen, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Russell Banks, C.K. Williams,
Nadine Gordimer, Jamaica Kincaid, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, and many others. The
series has worked to bring established and up-and-coming new writers to the attention
of Seton Hall students and the community.
Categories: Arts and Culture, Campus Life
