Malena Watrous
Malena Watrous | |
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| Born | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Barnard College Iowa Writers' Workshop |
Malena Watrous (born in San Francisco) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, educator, and author of numerous magazine articles.
She is a contributor to The San Francisco Chronicle,[1] The New York Times,[2] Real Simple, The Believer, and Salon.[3]
She lives in San Francisco. She attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop,[3] was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University,[4] and then a Jones Lecturer. She currently teaches at the Stanford Online Writers' Workshop.[5]
Her debut novel, If You Follow Me was released on March 9, 2010. The book has received reviews in The New York Times,[6] The Boston Globe,[7] Ms. Magazine, The Rumpus,[8] and the San Francisco Chronicle.[9]
She lived and worked in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme from 1998 to 2000.[10] She attended Barnard College, where she majored in English and spent her free time interning for a food writer.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ 'All That Work and Still No Boys'. SFGate (September 20, 2009). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
- ^ Book Review | 'Little Bird of Heaven,' by Joyce Carol Oates – The New York Times. Nytimes.com (September 17, 2009). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
- ^ a b Malena Watrous. nytimesknownow.com
- ^ Stanford Creative Writing Program Archived November 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Stanford.edu (June 20, 2014). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
- ^ Online Writing Courses. stanford.edu
- ^ Soderlind, Lori (April 1, 2010) IF YOU FOLLOW ME By Malena Watrous, New York Times
- ^ Malena Watrous’s debut novel is full of discoveries – The Boston Globe. Boston.com (March 8, 2010). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
- ^ Life Is Not Karaoke Booth. The Rumpus.net (March 2010). Retrieved on December 22, 2016.
- ^ 'If You Follow Me,' by Malena Watrous – SFGate. Articles.sfgate.com (March 23, 2010). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
- ^ JET Alum Author Profile: Malena Watrous. JETwit.com (September 21, 2010). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
- ^ Malena Watrous. Malena Watrous. Retrieved on December 22, 2016.
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