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Clare Beams

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.


What the Shadowy History of Women’s Health Tells Us About Its Uncertain Future

Clare Beams on the Dark Legacy of a Purported Pregnancy Miracle Drug
April 9, 2024  By Clare Beams
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Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition

Clare Beams on Women's Bodies and the Power of Names
February 11, 2020  By Clare Beams
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