Don Watersane Arroyo
Fiction

Don Waters won the 2009 GLCA New Writers Award for his collection of stories, Desert Gothic, which also won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Novelist Percival Everett calls the prose in Waters’s stories, all set in the American southwest, “as sneaky as the landscape it depicts . . . also as harsh and as beautiful.” Waters has received numerous fellowships and honors for his writing, including the Pushcart Prize and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. He was born and raised in Reno, Nevada and now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.