Stephanie Powell Watts is an author and an associate professor at Lehigh University.Watts's first book, the short story collection "We are Taking Only what We Need," was published in 2011 and won an Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her short fiction has been included in two volumes of the Best New Stories from the South anthology and honored with a Pushcart Prize. Her first novel, "No One Is Coming to Save Us," was published in 2017.Watts received her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.