Watts concluded her visit with a public reading from No One Is Coming to Save Us, which she began by giving a brief overview of how she’s gotten to where she is as a writer. “She gave me great advice about how to round out my characters and ways to develop my overall story.” “It’s always encouraging to hear from visiting writers about their process, struggles and breakthroughs,” Jennifer Rohrbach, a senior creative writing and English double major, says. She also individually met with several students in the Long-Form Fiction course for tutorials. On campus, Watts spent time speaking in creative writing and English classes about her books, her writing process, and answering student’s questions. While the reflective quality of the short story is something Watts is comfortable with, the final story in this collection is what inspired her to begin No One Is Coming to Save Us. In 2011, Watts published a collection of shorts stories called We Are Only Taking What We Need. Described as “an arresting and powerful novel about an extended African American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream,” No One Is Coming to Save Us has been named one of the most anticipated books of 2017 by Entertainment Weekly, W Magazine, Nylon, Elle, Redbook, and The Chicago Review of Books.
Watts published her debut novel, No One Is Coming to Save Us, with Ecco in April 2017. 14 and 15 as a part of the English and Creative Writing department’s Distinguished Writers Series.
Author Stephanie Powell Watts visited Widener Nov.
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