photo: marcus beck

Don Waters' story collection, Desert Gothic, won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Stories from the collection have been anthologized in Pushcart Prize XXXIII and Best of the West 2009. He's the recipient of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award (in fiction) and a Lannan Foundation writing fellowship, as well as other honors.
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His recent essays and book reviews have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, High Country News, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times Book Review.
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Waters was born and raised in Reno, Nevada and now lives in New Mexico with his partner, author Robin Romm.
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EVENTS: upcoming and past readings and events.




<-- Recommended. Check out Best of the West 2009, edited by D. Seth Horton and James Thomas and featuring stories by Lee K. Abbott, Dagoberto Gilb, Antonya Nelson, Annie Proulx, Joyce Carol Oates, and many other fine writers.
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Places you should visit: Univ. of Iowa Press, Akashic Books, AK Press, WildEarth Guardians, The Center for Biological Diversity.
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* Email: dw (at) donwaters.com