Claire Davis--Fiction Writer and Essayist
Mar 11, 2010, 7:30 PMTaylor Auditorium in Marsh Hall
A huge favorite among readers and listeners, Claire Davis crafts stories for the brave of heart. Hear her read and learn about how she crafts her compelling characters.
Claire Davis' stories and novels have received numerous awards and earned her the honor of being the Oregonian Book Club’s featured author. Her hard-biting prose and unwavering honesty make her fiction and nonfiction capture what it means to be human. Her writing is finely made and full of surprises. We see ourselves in her characters and pull hard for her to show them surviving their mistakes - which they sometimes do. Davis always tells a great story with stunning craft and delivery. When she reads aloud audiences have been known to listen so hard they forget to breathe.
Claire Davis’ first novel Winter Range was listed among the best books of 2000 by the Washington Post, Chicago Sun Times, Denver Post, Seattle Post, The Oregonian and The Christian Science Monitor, and was the first book to receive both the PNBA and MPBA awards for best fiction. Her second novel Season of the Snake, and her short story collection Labors of the Heart were both released to wide critical acclaim.
She is co-editor of the anthology Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-five Women over Forty. Her stories and essays have appeared in numerous literary magazines such as The Gettysburg Review, Shenandoah, Southern Review, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and Best American Short Stories. She lives in Lewiston, Idaho where she teaches creative writing at Lewis-Clark State College. She also teaches for Pacific University Low-Residency MFA in Writing Program.
All readings in Pacific’s Writers Series are free and take place at 7:30 p.m. at Taylor Auditorium in Marsh Hall on Pacific’s Forest Grove campus. Authors’ books are for sale after the event.
Contact Prof. Kathlene Postma at post9396@pacificu.edu for more information.
Posted by Kathlene Postma (Kathlene_Postma@pacificu.edu) on Oct 26, 2009 at 9:59 AM
