Saeed Jones and Claire Vaye Watkins

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND LIVE STREAMING | Saeed Jones and Claire Vaye Watkins will read from their recent books as part of the Writers Reading series.

Saeed Jones is the author of the memoir How We Fight for Our Lives, winner of the 2019 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction and the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise, winner for the 2015 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, New York Times, and GQ, among other publications. His most recent book, Alive at the End of the World, won the 2023 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Poetry. Saeed co-hosts the podcast Vibe Check with Sam Sanders and Zach Stafford and is the 2024-2025 artist-in-residence in the Media, Health and Medicine program at Harvard Medical School. His next book Home Out There, a memoir, is forthcoming from Washington Square Press.

Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of Battleborn, Gold Fame Citrus, and I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness. She lives in the Mojave Desert.