Short story writer and essayist Claire Vaye Watkins will give a reading Monday, Oct. 21, at 7 pm at the Moose Exchange, 203 W. Main Street, Bloomsburg.Watkins is the author of Battleborn, which was named a best book of 2012 by the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Time Out New York, Flavorwire, and NPR.org. Battleborn (Riverhead Books) also won the Story 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.
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.
The reading is sponsored by the Bloomsburg University Center for Visual and Performing Arts and the Big Dog Reading Series.
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