Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of the novels I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness and Gold Fame Citrus, and the story collection Battleborn. She has received the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was included in Granta’s Best Young American Novelists and the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” A professor in the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine, Claire lives in Orange County and the Mojave Desert.
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