Date/Time
Date(s) - September 15, 2022
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Longs Peak Room, Lory Student Center
Categories
The Creative Writing Reading Series presents Claire Vaye Watkins and Marie-Helene Bertino
Lory Student Center, Longs Peak Room at 7:30 pm
Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of the novels I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness and Gold Fame Citrus, and the short story collection Battleborn, winner of 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, among other prizes. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, Watkins is a professor at the University of California Irvine and lives in Twenty-nine Palms, California.
Marie-Helene Bertino is the author of the novels Parakeet (New York Times Editors’ Choice), and 2 a.m. at the Cat’s Pajamas (NPR Best Books 2014), and the story collection Safe As Houses (Iowa Short Fiction Award). Her fourth book, the novel Beautyland, is forthcoming from FSG.