Clare Beams Author Talk

Clare Beams

Moderated by Irina Reyn | Building: Long Hall | Room: 210 | 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM

After the presentation, the author will be signing books in a tent outside next to the Information Tent.

Their books will be available at the bookstore in the atrium of Long Hall.

Biography

Clare Beams's novel The Illness Lesson (Doubleday, 2020) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and her story collection We Show What We Have Learned (Lookout Books, 2016) won the Bard Fiction Prize. Her new novel is The Garden (Doubleday, April 2024). A 2014 NEA fellow, she was a finalist for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Randolph MFA program.