Malena Watrous

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,^[4] was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University,^[5] and then a Jones Lecturer. She currently teaches at the Stanford Online Writers' Workshop.^[6]

Her debut novel, If You Follow Me was released on March 9, 2010. The book has received reviews in the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Soderlind-t.html, the Boston Globe,^[7] Ms. Magazine, The Rumpus, http://therumpus.net/2010/03/life-is-not-a-karaoke-booth/, and The San Francisco Chronicle, http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-03-23/entertainment/18843603_1_humor-japanese-year-of-teaching-english.

She attended Barnard College, where she majored in English and spent her free time interning for a food writer.^[8]

1. ^ http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/20/RV9319N0ED.DTL
2. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/books/review/Watrous-t.html?_r=2
3. ^ http://www.nytimesknownow.com/index.php/malena-watrous/
4. ^ http://www.nytimesknownow.com/index.php/malena-watrous/
5. ^ http://www.stanford.edu/group/creativewriting/fellows.html
6. ^ http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/onlinewriters.php
7. ^ http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/03/08/malena_watrouss_debut_novel_is_full_of_discoveries/
8. ^ http://malenawatrous.com/

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