Wench (Perkins-Valdez)

Author Bio 
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Memphis, Tennessee, USA
• Education—B.A., Harvard University
• Currently—lives in Washington, DC, and Seattle Washington

Dolen Perkins-Valdez's fiction and essays have appeared in StoryQuarterly, Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories 2009, The Kenyon Review, PMS: PoemMemoirStory, North Carolina Literary Review, and "Richard Wright Newsletter."

Born and raised in Memphis, a graduate of Harvard, and a former University of California postdoctoral fellow, Perkins-Valdez teaches creative writing at the University of Puget Sound. She splits her time between Washington, DC and Seattle, Washington. This is her first novel. (From the publisher.)