Author: Helena Echlin

Malena Watrous is the author of the novel If You Follow Me (Harper Perennial, 2010). She spent her adolescence in Oregon, which inspired the book?s setting. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and helped to found the Online Writers? Certificate, Stanford?s two-year online novel-writing program. She teaches fiction-writing for Stanford as well as working on her own fiction, and has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times. She lives in San Francisco.