LaToya Watkins
LaToya Watkins is an award-winning author of two books. Her short story collection, Holler, Child, was longlisted for the National Book Award and was the winner of the Reading the West Book Award in Fiction and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award in Fiction.
Her debut novel, Perish, was published to great acclaim in 2022. LaToya’s writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Sun, McSweeney’s, and The Kenyon Review, among other publications.
She lives and teaches in a suburb of Dallas.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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LaToya Watkins recommends
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Dixon, Descending (2024)
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"Karen Outen's Dixon Descending is a quiet, sometimes violent, incredibly moving, novel by writer who knows how it's done. The brutal honesty, arresting prose, love, hate, compassion, strength, and weakness are exactly what writing should be. Outen has blessed us with a brilliant character study and a powerful, important read."
Life and Other Love Songs (2023)
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"Life and Other Love Songs is a harsh, sometimes haunting, astonishingly moving, exceptionally complex novel about family and music and hurt and fear and pride and love and loss. Anissa Gray tells this story with such grace, insight and precision that readers will think of these characters long after they close the book. This is what writing should be."
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