Claire Vaye Watkins

Born

in Bishop, CA, The United States

April 09, 1984

Website

http://www.clairevayewatkins.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Science Fiction

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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. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno, Claire earned her MFA from the Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, One Story, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Best of the West 2011, New Stories from the Southwest 2013, the New York Times and elsewhere. Claire has received fellowships from the Writers’ Conferences at Sewanee and Bread Loaf.

Her collection of short stories, Battleborn (Riverhead Books), won the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fi ...more

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Average rating: 3.6 · 10,764 ratings · 1,797 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Gold Fame Citrus 3.30 avg rating — 6,800 ratings — published 2015 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Battleborn 4.11 avg rating — 3,895 ratings — published 2012 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers by Richard Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Benedict (Goodreads Author) , Paula Bomer (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation by John Freeman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Julia Alvarez (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Patricia Engel (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 647 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Granta Bulgaria 8: най-добрите млади американски романисти 3 by Sigrid Rausing (Editor), Jesse Ball (Goodreads Author) , Halle Butler (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 197 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Side of the Divide: Stories of the American West by Tobias Wolff, Nona Caspers , Melinda Moustakis (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glimmer Train Stories, #83 by Susan Burmeister-Brown (Editor), Linda B. Swanson-Davies (Editor) , Joseph Johns 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story Prize: 15 Years of Great Short Fiction by Larry Dark (Contributor), Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) , Elizabeth Strout (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“A promise unkept will take a man's mind.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn

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“Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins, Battleborn

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“Luz, we all have an obligation to the people who love us. They've given us this gift whether we want it or not and it is our duty to stand up and be worthy. We are not loved in proportion to our deserving, and thank God for that, for unworthies like you and me would find that life a bitch. We're loved to the level we ought to rise, and even in returning it we are obligated to be gentle.”
― Claire Vaye Watkins, Gold Fame Citrus

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What will be our open pick book for March 2015?

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Slade House by David Mitchell

7 votes, 46.7%

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

3 votes, 20.0%

Death and Mr. Pickwick by Stephen Jarvis

2 votes, 13.3%

The Past by Tessa Hadley

2 votes, 13.3%

Battleborn by Claire Vaye Watkins

1 vote, 6.7%

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