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.
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