The first story in the collection, "Ghosts, Cowboys", taps into her Manson legacy: “My father didn’t kill anyone. This is the best collection I have come across in a long time, the sort of book that makes me want to go home early because I’m “tired,” then stay up reading until 3 a.m.
But even more interesting than my unabashed writer crush, are her stories.
Though I have been fantasizing that Claire and I could be BFFs, spending our days riding bikes along desolate desert highways, getting into mischief stealing peacocks from the local whorehouse. The following paragraphs are a gushing of my intense love for Claire. In 2012, Claire was selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” Currently a visiting assistant professor at Princeton University, Claire is also the co-director, with Derek Palacio, of the Mojave School, a free creative writing workshop for teenagers in rural Nevada.Short Work The sum of that which we endure: haunted by Claire Vaye WatkinsĮver a better time to begin writing a column about short story collections, than after reading Claire Vaye Watkins’ debut title, Battleborn. Bingham Prize, Battleborn was named a best book of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Time Out New York, Flavorwire, and NPR.org. A finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the PEN/Robert W. Her collection of short stories, Battleborn, won 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 a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Claire has received fellowships from the Writers’ Conferences at Sewanee and Bread Loaf. In 2017 she was chosen as one of the best young American novelists in Granta magazine. 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. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno, Claire earned her MFA from the Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow.
She was raised in the Mojave Desert – first in Tecopa, California and then across the state line in Pahrump, Nevada. She was born in Bishop, California in 1984. Claire Vaye Watkins is an American author.
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