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Posts by: Claire Vaye Watkins

What to Read When It’s Been a Hell of a Year

By Claire Vaye Watkins

October 20th, 2017

Each of these books, in various ways, wound the crank on my empathy machine, and reminded me that telling a story can be a defiant act.

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Tags: Camille Dungy, Claire Vaye Watkins, cory taylor, David Stein, Dying: A Memoir, Erin Stalcup, Every Living Species, Grow Your Own, Guidebook to Relative Strangers, HAIRDO, How to Survive a Summer, Jesmyn Ward, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Liz Craine, Micah Sherman, Molly Patterson, Nichole Graf, Nick White, Rachel B. Glaser, reading list, reading recommendations, rebellion, The Fire This Time, The Song Cave, What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky, What to Read When

Magical Systems and Fusion Reactors: Rivers Solomon Discusses An Unkindness of Ghosts

By Claire Vaye Watkins

September 26th, 2017

Rivers Solomon discusses her debut novel, the importance of writing the body into a story, and more.

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Tags: ableism, adam johnson, afrofuturism, Akashic Books, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Ann Patchett, bodies, Claire Vaye Watkins, Clotilde, debut novel, disability, first book, Janelle Monae, language, Pain, Racism, Rivers Solomon, Run, science fiction, slavery, transposition, trauma

Claire Vaye Watkins earned her MFA from the Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, Tin House, Freeman’s, the Paris Review, Story Quaterly, New American Stories, Best of the West, The New Republic, the New York Times, and many others. A recipient of fellowships from the Sewanee and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, Claire was also one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35.” She is the author of Gold Fame Citrus and Battleborn. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a professor at Bucknell University and Princeton, and is currently an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. She is also the co-director, with Derek Palacio, of the Mojave School, a free creative writing workshop for teenagers in rural Nevada. Claire is a founding member of The Rumpus Advisory Board.

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