Malena Watrous
American novelist
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Malena Watrous (born in San Francisco) is an American novelist, essayist, short story writer, educator, and author of numerous magazine articles.
- Novelist
- essayist
- short story writer
- educator
- author
Malena Watrous | |
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| Born | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Education | Barnard College Iowa Writers' Workshop |
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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]