Malena Watrous Explained
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]
Notes and References
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/20/RV9319N0ED.DTL 'All That Work and Still No Boys'
- https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/books/review/Watrous-t.html?_r=2 Book Review | 'Little Bird of Heaven,' by Joyce Carol Oates – The New York Times
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110723022236/http://www.nytimesknownow.com/index.php/malena-watrous/ Malena Watrous
- http://www.stanford.edu/group/creativewriting/fellows.html Stanford Creative Writing Program
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140210070000/https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/onlinewriters.php Online Writing Courses
- Soderlind, Lori (April 1, 2010) IF YOU FOLLOW ME By Malena Watrous, New York Times
- http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/03/08/malena_watrouss_debut_novel_is_full_of_discoveries/ Malena Watrous’s debut novel is full of discoveries – The Boston Globe
- http://therumpus.net/2010/03/life-is-not-a-karaoke-booth/ Life Is Not Karaoke Booth
- http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-23/entertainment/18843603_1_humor-japanese-year-of-teaching-english 'If You Follow Me,' by Malena Watrous – SFGate
- http://jetwit.com/wordpress/2010/09/21/jet-alum-author-profile-malena-watrous/ JET Alum Author Profile: Malena Watrous
- http://malenawatrous.com/ Malena Watrous