Watts, Stephanie Powell

Stephanie Powell Watts is an associate professor of English at Lehigh  University, and has won numerous awards, including a Whiting Award, a  Pushcart Prize, the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and  the Southern Women’s Writers Award for Emerging Writer of the Year. She  was also a PEN/Hemingway finalist for her short-story collection We Are Taking Only What We Need.;