Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
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| Winesburg, Indiana |
2015 |
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| Tales of Two Americas |
2017 |
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Collections#
| Title |
Published |
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| Battleborn |
2012 |
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Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
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| Gold Fame Citrus |
2015 |
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| I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness |
2021 |
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Claire Vaye Watkins grew up in the Mojave Desert and earned her MFA from Ohio State University. Her debut story collection Battleborn, set in the Nevada desert, won a stack of awards and announced a major new voice in American fiction. The stories draw on the landscape and mythology of the American West, a territory she has continued to explore in her novels.
Gold Fame Citrus (2015) imagines a drought-ravaged California, and I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness (2021) blurs fiction and autobiography. Watkins teaches creative writing at the University of California, Irvine.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Claire Vaye Watkins written?
Claire Vaye Watkins has written five books across three series.
What was Claire Vaye Watkins's first book?
Claire Vaye Watkins’s first book is Battleborn, published in 2012.
What awards has Claire Vaye Watkins won?
Her debut collection Battleborn (2012) won the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. She was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree in 2012 and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014.