Claire Vaye Watkins Quotes

...though by then it had become increasingly difficult to distinguish the acts of God from the endeavors of men. The wind was God; of this they were confident. As were the mountains funneling the wind...

...though by then it had become increasingly difficult to distinguish the acts of God from the endeavors of men. The wind was God; of this they were confident. As were the mountains funneling the wind...

Claire Vaye Watkins

Tags: conservation, drought, waste, water

Nature had refused to offer herself to them. The water, the green, the mammalian, the tropical, the semitropical, the leafy, the verdant, the motherloving citrus, all of it was denied them and had bee...

Claire Vaye Watkins

Nature had refused to offer herself to them. The water, the green, the mammalian, the tropical, the semitropical, the leafy, the verdant, the motherloving citrus, all of it was denied them and had bee...

Claire Vaye Watkins

Tags: conservation, water

About Author

Claire Vaye Watkins (born April 9, 1984) is an American author and academic.
Her book of short stories Battleborn (Riverhead Books, 2012), won The Story Prize, among other awards. In 2012 the National Book Foundation named her a "5 under 35" honoree. Of her parents' influence on her award-winning collection, Watkins has said, "My father's story is more in the collective subconscious but my mom's is closer to the project." In 2014 Watkins was the recipient of the Guggenheim Award.
Her debut novel, Gold Fame Citrus, was published in 2015, and her second novel, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness, was published in 2021. Watkins currently teaches creative writing at the University of California, Irvine.