American · b. 1977
LaToya Watkins grew up in Lubbock, Texas, and sets her fiction in its landscapes of oil fields, evangelical churches, and hard-luck families. "Holler, Child" (2023), her debut story collection, traces violence across generations—the ways it transmits, transforms, and occasionally breaks. Watkins writes about Black life in West Texas, a region rarely depicted, with precision and moral complexity.