Claire Vaye Watkins
| Claire Vaye Watkins | |
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| Born |
April 9, 1984 Bishop, California |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, essayist, college professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Nevada, Reno, Ohio State University |
| Period | 2012— |
| Genres | Literary fiction, non-fiction |
| Subject | Landscape, the politics of woman and girlhood, environmental health. |
| Notable works |
Battleborn (2012) Gold Fame Citrus (2015) |
| Notable awards | Guggenheim |
| Spouse | Derek Palacio |
| Website | |
| http://clairevayewatkins.com/bio/ | |
Battleborn (2012)
Claire Vaye Watkins (born April 9, 1984) is an American author and professor.
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.” In 2014 Watkins was the recipient of the Guggenheim Award.
Her debut novel, Gold Fame Citrus, was published in 2015 to critical reception. Watkins currently teaches in the Helen Zell Writers' program at the University of Michigan.
Claire Vaye Watkins was born in Bishop, California in 1984. She was raised in the Mojave Desert, first in Tecopa, California and then across the state line in Pahrump, Nevada.
Watkins received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Nevada, Reno and her Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University where she was a Presidential fellow. Watkins is currently a faculty member of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan where she teaches creative writing. Previously she has taught as an assistant professor at Princeton University and an assistant professor at Bucknell University.
Watkins published Battleborn, a collection of short stories, in 2012 with publishing house Riverhead. The New York Times reviewed her collection as being "brutally unsentimental," writing that "Watkins’s characters wish to make sense of their pain, but also to be assured that they are not alone in it." The New Yorker wrote that Watkins was within a genre entirely new: "Nevada Gothic."Battleborn won many prizes, including The Story Prize, The Dylan Thomas Prize, The New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, The Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and The Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame.
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