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Stephanie Powell Watts

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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.

Books by Stephanie Powell Watts

No One Is Coming to Save Us

A riff on The Great Gatsby for Trump’s America, No One is Coming to Save Us is an exciting debut novel and the first pick for Sarah Jessica Parker’s new book club.

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