CLAIRE DAVIS Claire Davis' first novel, Winter Range, Picador USA, won the PNBA and MPBA awards for fiction in 2001. Her new novel, Skin of the Snake, St. Martin's Press, is forthcoming in 2005, and her collection of short stories, Labors of the Heart, St. Martin's, is forthcoming in 2006. Her stories have been featured in the Pushcart Prize series, as well as Best American Short Stories. She teaches creative writing at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.