American writer and academic CLAIRE VAYE WATKINS is the author of Yellow Pine: A Novel (Riverhead Books). Her previous books include the short story collection Battleborn and the novels Gold Fame Citrus y I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness. She has received the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, she is a professor at the University of California, Irvine.
