Watkins, Claire Vaye

Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of "Battleborn", winner of the Story Prize, 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. "Battleborn "was named a Best Book of 2012 by the "San Francisco Chronicle", "Boston Globe", "Time Out New York", and"Flavorwire", and a Best Short Story Collection by NPR.org. In 2012, the National Book Foundation named Claire one of the 5 Best Writers Under 35. Her stories and essays have appeared in "Granta", "One Story", "The Paris Review", "Ploughshares", "Glimmer Trai...