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Clare Beams



CLARE BEAMS is the author of the story collection We Show What We Have Learned, which 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. With her husband and two daughters, she lives in Pittsburgh, where she teaches creative writing, most recently at Carnegie Mellon University and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
 


Genres: Horror
 
Novels
   The Illness Lesson (2020)
   The Garden (2024)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Saltwater Cure (2013)
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Books containing stories by Clare Beams
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (2011)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Dave Eggers

Award nominations
2017 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee) : We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories
2017 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (nominee) : We Show What We Have Learned and Other Stories


Clare Beams recommends
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Girls with Long Shadows (2025)
Tennessee Hill
"A poetic, haunting, haunted novel - as suspenseful as it is lyrical. Within a sisterhood that's more like self-replication, Girls with Long Shadows maps the shimmering contours of identity and unfolds the kinds of damage only our most beloved can do to us. Baby B and her sisters moved and unsettled me and worked their way deep under my skin."
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Strange Folk (2024)
Alli Dyer
"A taut thriller threaded through with dirt and blood, honey and moonshine. Dyer roots her suspenseful tale so beautifully in this land and in this family that the novel becomes an interrogation of what rootedness itself means and is worth. I couldn't put this book down."
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Mystery Lights (2024)
Lena Valencia
"Lena Valencia writes some of the best stories I've read in years, as sharp and finely honed as knives. Here are women who turn out to be powerful enough to meet the threats of their worlds in kind: their lives may cut them, yes, but they can cut back, and astonishing truths are laid bare in the process. Both bold and sly, in turns righteously angry and sinister, Mystery Lights offers a brilliant new vision of what it means to be a woman in this world."

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