Claire Vaye Watkins

Claire Vaye Watkins is an American author and academic. Her short story collection Battleborn won The Story Prize, and she was named a 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation in 2012. Her novel Gold Fame Citrus imagines a California where the water has run out, and her second novel, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, came out in 2021. Watkins teaches creative writing at the University of California, Irvine.