Malena Watrous
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Malena Watrous is an American
novelist, essayist, short story
writer, educator, and author of numerous magazine articles.
She is a contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle,The New York Times, Real Simple, The Believer, and Salon.
She lives in San Francisco. She attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and then a Jones Lecturer. She currently teaches at the Stanford Online Writers' Workshop.
Her debut novel
, If You Follow Me was released on March 9, 2010. The book has received reviews in the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Soderlind-t.html, the Boston Globe, Ms. Magazine, The Rumpus, http://therumpus.net/2010/03/life-is-not-a-karaoke-booth/, and The San Francisco Chronicle, http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-23/entertainment/18843603_1_humor-japanese-year-of-teaching-english.
She attended Barnard College, where she majored in English and spent her free time interning for a food writer.
United States
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novelist, essayist, short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
writer, educator, and author of numerous magazine articles.
She is a contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle,The New York Times, Real Simple, The Believer, and Salon.
She lives in San Francisco. She attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and then a Jones Lecturer. She currently teaches at the Stanford Online Writers' Workshop.
Her debut novel
Debut novel
A debut novel is the first novel an author publishes. Debut novels are the author's first opportunity to make an impact on the publishing industry, and thus the success or failure of a debut novel can affect the ability of the author to publish in the future...
, If You Follow Me was released on March 9, 2010. The book has received reviews in the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Soderlind-t.html, the Boston Globe, Ms. Magazine, The Rumpus, http://therumpus.net/2010/03/life-is-not-a-karaoke-booth/, and The San Francisco Chronicle, http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-23/entertainment/18843603_1_humor-japanese-year-of-teaching-english.
She attended Barnard College, where she majored in English and spent her free time interning for a food writer.