Claire Vaye Watkins | |
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| Born | April 9, 1984 Bishop, California, US |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, essayist, college professor |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | University of Nevada, Reno Ohio State University |
| Genre | Literary fiction, non-fiction |
| Subject | Landscape, the politics of woman and girlhood, environmental health. |
| Notable works | Battleborn (2012) Gold Fame Citrus (2015) I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness (2021) |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Relatives | Paul Watkins (father) Martha Watkins (mother) |
Claire Vaye Watkins (born April 9, 1984) is an American author and academic.[1]
Her book of short stories Battleborn (Riverhead Books, 2012), won The Story Prize, among other awards. In 2012 the National Book Foundation named her a "5 under 35" honoree. Of her parents' influence on her award-winning collection, Watkins has said, "My father's story is more in the collective subconscious but my mom's is closer to the project."[2] In 2014 Watkins was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.[3]
Her debut novel, Gold Fame Citrus, was published in 2015, and her second novel, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, was published in 2021. Watkins currently teaches creative writing at the University of California, Irvine.[4]
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