ABOUT PAULETTE
Paulette Bates Alden is the author of two collections of autobiographical short stories: Feeding the Eagles and Unforgettable, along with a memoir, Crossing the Moon, and three novels: The Answer to Your Question, which won the Kindle Book Review’s 2013 Best Indie Book Award in the suspense category; The Empty Cell (2020), which traces four characters whose lives are upended by the lynching of a young Black man in 1947; and Hidden Valley Road.
A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she taught courses in fiction and memoir writing for many years at the University of Minnesota, where she received a Distinguished Teaching Award. She was a Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford and a Benedict Distinguished Visiting Professor in creative writing at Carleton College. She taught many writing workshops at the Split Rock Arts Program and the Key West Literary Seminar. She now lives in Greenville, South Carolina, where she was born and raised.
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