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LaToya Watkins

LaToya Watkins’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space (2018), the Sun (2018), McSweeney’s (2017), West Branch (2017), and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and scholarships from A Public Space (2018), MacDowell Colony (2016, 2018), Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (2015, 2017), Yaddo (2018), Hedgebrook (2017), and Kimbilio Fiction (2014). She writes and teaches in a suburb of Dallas, Texas.

The Unexpected

Mar/Apr 2020

Sweat

By LaToya Watkins

Lotrece woke up dripping sweat the night her marriage ended. The ceiling fan hummed above her, and she could feel the central air conditioning blowing full blast. The room was […]

LaToya Watkins

LaToya Watkins’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in A Public Space (2018), the Sun (2018), McSweeney’s (2017), West Branch (2017), and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and scholarships from […]