One Hopes

“As she sweeps from Gold Rush to ghost town in ten stories, Watkins captures the American West, particularly her home state of Nevada, persuasively enough to have been snatched up by agent Nicole Aragi, who takes on only one new client a year. Watkins’s pieces have been published in top-drawer venues like Granta and Paris Review. And though one hopes that the personal will not overshadow the page, Watkins’s backstory—her father was an important member of Charles Manson’s “Family”—will spur interest and in fact features in some of her writing.”
—Library Journal