Malena Watrous

Malena Watrous
BornSan Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
  • short story writer
  • educator
  • author
NationalityAmerican
EducationBarnard 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]

  1. ^ 'All That Work and Still No Boys'. SFGate (September 20, 2009). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
  2. ^ Book Review | 'Little Bird of Heaven,' by Joyce Carol Oates – The New York Times. Nytimes.com (September 17, 2009). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
  3. ^ a b Malena Watrous. nytimesknownow.com
  4. ^ Stanford Creative Writing Program Archived November 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. Stanford.edu (June 20, 2014). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
  5. ^ Online Writing Courses. stanford.edu
  6. ^ Soderlind, Lori (April 1, 2010) IF YOU FOLLOW ME By Malena Watrous, New York Times
  7. ^ Malena Watrous’s debut novel is full of discoveries – The Boston Globe. Boston.com (March 8, 2010). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
  8. ^ Life Is Not Karaoke Booth. The Rumpus.net (March 2010). Retrieved on December 22, 2016.
  9. ^ 'If You Follow Me,' by Malena Watrous – SFGate. Articles.sfgate.com (March 23, 2010). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
  10. ^ JET Alum Author Profile: Malena Watrous. JETwit.com (September 21, 2010). Retrieved on 2016-12-22.
  11. ^ Malena Watrous. Malena Watrous. Retrieved on December 22, 2016.