1046. Claire Vaye Watkins
Published: July 28, 2026
Duration: 1:16:18
Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of the novel Yellow Pine, available from Riverhead Books.
Her other books include the story collection Battleborn and the novels Gold Fame Citrus and I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness. 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.
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