Claire Vaye Watkins: Dry, Damaged Dystopia

In her highly acclaimed short stories and debut novel 'Gold Fame Citrus', Claire Vaye Watkins has established herself as one of the more original literary voices to emerge in some time, as well as a keen chronicler of a not-too-distant, dystopian American West. Born and raised in California and Nevada, Watkins imagines a world remade by crippling water scarcity and Los Angeles facing obliteration by sand. Join Watkins, hailed by the National Book Foundation as one of its “5 Under 35,” for a conversation with Chicago poet and artist Krista Franklin, about living and writing through climate change.

This program is presented in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

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