Luis Jaramillo and Claire Vaye Watkins

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

Luis Jaramillo is the author of The Witches of El Paso. He is also the author of the award-winning short story collection The Doctor’s Wife. His writing has appeared in Literary Hub, BOMB Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications. He is an associate professor of Creative Writing at The New School. 

Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of two novels, I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness and Gold Fame Citrus, as well as the short story collection Battleborn, which won the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Watkins is a professor in the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Her next novel, Yellow Pine, is forthcoming in the Summer of 2026. She lives in Orange County and the Mojave Desert.