Author Claire Vaye Watkins will give a reading as the 2018 Virginia Butts Sturm Writer-in-Residence at WVU Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the Milano Reading Room of the Downtown Campus Library.
Her stories and essays have appeared in “Granta,” “Tin House,” “Freeman’s,” “The Paris Review,” “Story Quarterly,” “New American Stories,” “Best of the West,” “The New Republic,” “The New York Times,” “Pushcart Prize XLIII” and many others. A Guggenheim Fellow, one of the National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” and Granta’s “Best Young American Novelists,” Watkins is the director and co-founder, with Derek Palacio, of the Mojave School, a festival of art and literature in the Mojave Desert.
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