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LaToya Watkins

LaToya Watkins
LaToya Watkins’s debut novel, Perish, was published to great acclaim in 2022. Her writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Sun, McSweeney’s, and the Kenyon Review, among other publications. She has received grants, scholarships, and fellowships from the Camargo Foundation, MacDowell, Yaddo, and elsewhere. She lives and teaches in a suburb of Dallas. Her new short story collection, Holler, Child is out August 29, 2023 from Tiny Reparations Books.


Learning to Write About Pets When You Aren’t An Animal Person

LaToya Watkins on Loss, the Natural World as a Mirror, and the Reassuring Blessing of Nonhuman Companionship
September 11, 2023  By LaToya Watkins
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