Kirstin Valdez Quade

thumb Kirstin Valdez Quade is an American writer. Quotes When I read, if I don’t know where a story is set, I always feel unmoored. The same is true for my writing: Until I place my story in a specific place, I can’t get my footing in the world… On the importance of location in her writings in “Kirstin Valdez Quade: How I Write” in The Writer (2017 Apr 21) I love the short story: I love its flexibility, its distillation of language, the pressure it exerts on the moment. A story demands that the reader look closely. And yet, despite the intensity and constraints, a story can be surprisingly capacious… On why she loves writing short stories in “Kirstin Valdez Quade: How I Write” in The Writer (2017 Apr 21) It has absolutely been romanticized; it shows up in literature and art. I think there is a sort of magic to it that draws people and yet I think the reality of it is that it's an extraordinarily complicated place. On the spiritual quality given to New Mexico in “'Night At The Fiestas' Spins Stories Of Faith And Family” in NPR (2015 Mar 28) I do think one of the reasons I’m a writer is that we moved around so much when I was a child, and I was always the new kid. I was always in a new environment and trying to figure it out. I was always watching, trying to suss out what the social situation was, and where I might fit in, and who I was in this new place. We’re different people in different contexts; different aspects of our identities become more pertinent… On how her childhood affected her writing in “HAVING FAITH: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE” in The Nashville Review (2017 Dec 13) External links Category:Hispanic Americans Category:Authors from the United States Category:Short story writers from the United States Category:Living people