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Claire Vaye Watkins

Author

Bio

Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of the short story collection Battleborn and the novel Gold Fame Citrus. She has received the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, Watkins is a professor at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Twentynine Palms, California.

Claire Vaye Watkins Books

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness book cover

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

Claire Vaye Watkins
The Story Prize book cover

The Story Prize

Larry Dark
Gold Fame Citrus book cover

Gold Fame Citrus

Claire Vaye Watkins
Winesburg, Indiana book cover

Winesburg, Indiana

Michael Martone
Battleborn book cover

Battleborn

Claire Vaye Watkins
The Awakening and Selected Stories book cover

The Awakening and Selected Stories

Kate Chopin
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