“I do think one of the reasons I’m a writer is that we moved around so much when I was a child, and I was always the new kid. I was always in a new environment and trying to figure it out. I was always watching, trying to suss out what the social situation was, and where I might fit in, and who I was in this new place. We’re different people in different contexts; different aspects of our identities become more pertinent…”

On how her childhood affected her writing in “HAVING FAITH: AN INTERVIEW WITH KIRSTIN VALDEZ QUADE” https://as.vanderbilt.edu/nashvillereview/archives/14088 in The Nashville Review (2017 Dec 13)

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