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Clare Beams

Clare Beams is the author of the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, which won the Bard Fiction Prize and was a Kirkus Best Debut of 2016, as well as a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Shirley Jackson Award. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. With her husband and two daughters, she lives in Pittsburgh.

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Wed Jun 12
Midtown Scholar
1302 N 3RD ST
HARRISBURG, PA 17102-1906
Google Map

Thu Jul 18 | 07:00 PM
Riffraff Bookstore
60 VALLEY ST STE 107A
PROVIDENCE, RI 02909-7418
Google Map

Fri Jul 19 | 07:00 PM
Newtonville Books
10 LANGLEY RD
NEWTON CENTER, MA 02459-1972
Google Map

Sat Jul 20 | 07:00 PM
Print: A Bookstore
273 CONGRESS ST
PORTLAND, ME 04101-3647
Google Map

Sun Jul 21 | 03:00 PM
Water Street Bookstore
125 WATER ST
EXETER, NH 03833-2456
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