LaToya Watkins author biography, plus links to books by LaToya Watkins.

LaToya Watkins

LaToya Watkins is an award-winning author of two books. Her short story collection, Holler, Child, was longlisted for the National Book Award and was the winner of the Reading the West Book Award in Fiction and the Writers' League of Texas Book Award in Fiction. Her debut novel, Perish, was published to great acclaim in 2022. LaToya's writing has appeared in A Public Space, The Sun, McSweeney's, and The Kenyon Review, among other publications. She lives and teaches in a suburb of Dallas.

This biography was last updated on 08/18/2026.

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