Clevidence, Carin

Carin Clevidence is the author of the novel “The House on Salt Hay Road” (FSG).

Jhumpa Lahiri said that “With precise brushstrokes and startling imagery, Carin Clevidence renders the portrait of a family at once stubbornly bonded and splintering apart. Casting a steady spell on the reader, Clevidence is a breathtaking new American voice.”

Her short stories have appeared in Story, the Indiana Review and the Michigan Quarterly Review, among other publications.

She is the recipient ofa Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award and a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass.

Clevidence earned her MFA from the University of Michigan.