We Are Taking Only What We Need
Stephanie Powell Watts teaches at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. "Unassigned Territory" from this collection received the Pushcart Prize and a citation fromBest American Short Stories. Two stories from the book appeared inBest New Stories from the Southanthologies. Watts's work has appeared inOxford American,New Letters,African American Review, and elsewhere. A former Jehovah's Witness minister born and raised in Lenoir, North Carolina, she holds the PhD from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has received the Southern Women Writers Conference's emerging writer of the year award in fiction.