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ABOUT
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Claire Vaye Watkins was born in Bishop, California in 1984. She was raised in the Mojave Desert, first in Tecopa, California and then across the state line in Pahrump, Nevada. A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno, Claire earned her MFA from the Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Her stories and essays have appeared in. Granta, Tin House, The Paris Review, One Story, Glimmer Train, Best of the West, Best of the Southwest, The New York Times.
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THE MOJAVE SCHOOL
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The Mojave School is a free creative writing camp for rural Nevada teens, founded and directed by Claire Vaye Watkins and Derek Palacio. Find out more here: mojaveschool.org. Photo by Zack Barbee.