Claire Vaye Watkins

Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of Battleborn, winner of The Story Prize, The Dylan Thomas Prize, and The New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, among others. “The Amargosa Dun Sea” is an excerpt from her novel, Gold Fame Citrus, forthcoming in September 2015.

New Nature Writers – Issue 19

•The Amargosa Dune Sea

“I was overcome with this very powerful feeling,” one Mojav refugee told CNN of the first time she saw the dune sea. “A feeling of, well, belonging.”