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Kirstin Valdez Quade

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. The recipient of a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, she teaches at Princeton University and lives in New Jersey.

Kirstin Valdez Quade

Kirstin Valdez Quade is the author of Night at the Fiestas, winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. The recipient of a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, she teaches at Princeton University and lives in New Jersey.

Awards

Winner — NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize, 2015

Shortlisted — ALA Carnegie Medal, 2022

Winner — Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, 2021

Shortlisted — PEN/Hemingway Award, 2022

Shortlisted — Aspen Words Literary Prize, 2022

Winner — Rosenthal Family Foundation Award, 2022

Shortlisted — Lambda Literary Award, 2022

Shortlisted — VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, 2022

Shortlisted — Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Reading the West Book Award, 2022

Shortlisted — Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, 2022

Shortlisted — Maya Angelou Book Award, 2022

Books by Kirstin Valdez Quade

  • Night at the Fiestas: Stories

    Kirstin Valdez Quade

    Paperback, 2016

    Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize
    Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award

    "[A] sparkling debut collection…features dreamers and schemers whose...
  • The Five Wounds: A Novel

    Kirstin Valdez Quade

    Hardback, 2021

  • The Five Wounds: A Novel

    Kirstin Valdez Quade

    E Book, 2021

  • Night at the Fiestas: Stories

    Kirstin Valdez Quade

    E Book, 2015

    Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize
    Finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Award

    "[A] sparkling debut collection…features dreamers and schemers whose...
  • The Five Wounds: A Novel

    Kirstin Valdez Quade

    Paperback, 2022