Books by Steve Watkins
JUVIE by Steve Watkins
Kirkus Star
by Steve Watkins
Released: Oct. 8, 2013
"A bleakly optimistic reminder to hold on to what is good. (Fiction. 13-17)"
Once you're in juvie, it doesn't matter if you're a good girl. Read full book review >
WHAT COMES AFTER by Steve Watkins
by Steve Watkins
ANIMALS
Released: April 1, 2011

Abandoned first by her abusive mother and then by her father when he dies, 16-year-old Iris Wight is no stranger to loss. Read full book review >

DOWN SAND MOUNTAIN by Steve Watkins
by Steve Watkins
FAMILY AND GROWING UP
Released: Oct. 1, 2008

Sand Mountain, Fla., circa 1966, has a segregated population emotionally wrestling with Jim Crow laws. Read full book review >

MY CHAOS THEORY by Steve Watkins
by Steve Watkins
FICTION & LITERATURE
Released: Nov. 30, 2006
"Entertaining and gripping."
Disaster is the rule in this aptly titled, darkly comic debut collection. Read full book review >
THE BLACK O by Steve Watkins
by Steve Watkins
HISTORY
Released: Oct. 1, 1997

A startling journalistic effort by first-time author Watkins, looking at Jim Crowera hiring practices at a national restaurant chain. Ray Danner, the diminutive head of Shoney's, spent most weekends flying to his restaurants across the country. Read full book review >