Malena Watrous (born in San Francisco) is an American

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writer, educator, and author of numerous magazine articles. She is a contributor to ''The San Francisco Chronicle'', ''The New York Times'', ''Real Simple'', ''The Believer'', and ''Salon''.Malena Watrous
nytimesknownow.com She lives in San Francisco. She attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and then a Jones Lecturer. She currently teaches at the Stanford Online Writers' Workshop. Her

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, ''If You Follow Me'' was released on March 9, 2010. The book has received reviews in ''

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'', ''Ms. Magazine'', ''The Rumpus'', and the ''

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''. She lived and worked in Japan as an

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on the

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from 1998–2000. She attended Barnard College, where she majored in English and spent her free time interning for a food writer.Malena Watrous
Malena Watrous. Retrieved on December 22, 2016.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Watrous, Malena Living people 21st-century American novelists American women novelists American women short story writers Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American short story writers Barnard College alumni