Author Claudia Hinz

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Claudia Hinz shares her debut novel.

Books will be available for sale following the presentation. 

About the Author:

Claudia Hinz lives in Bend, Oregon. She graduated from Harvard and received her MA in English from Southern Methodist University. She worked as a television reporter for network affiliates in Northern California, Seattle and Dallas. Her work has been published in The Christian Science Monitor, Women Writers, Women’s Books, Story Magazine, Other People’s Flowers, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, The Manifest-Station, Brevity, The Boston Globe, 1859 Oregon’s Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, Bend Lifestyle Magazine and BLUNTmoms. Her debut novel Safekeeping (MilSpeak Books) will be available in fall 2026.

About the Book:

Unpacking the contradictions of motherhood, the devastation of grief, the blind spots of privilege, the fuel of desire, and one’s own purpose, Safekeeping is a thoughtful, poignant novel that will remain with you long after the last page is turned. 

“A fast, sharp, gorgeous debut, Safekeeping is, by turns, lovely and searing and brutal. With grace and insight, Claudia Hinz maps the taut practiced codes of intimacy and marriage, identity and desire, in a beautifully rendered story of the private risks a mother will take for the sake of freedom and the singular integrity of what she believes and those she loves.” Dawn Tripp, Jackie

"Safekeeping takes us on a wild, tumultuous ride through some of the roughest stuff life has to offer.  A fiercely protective mother, wealthy, privileged, is determined to save her son from the newly imposed draft, and discovers conflicts in herself and her family that threaten to blow her life apart.  Claudia Hinz has written a masterful debut novel, one that unflinchingly faces up to the realities of marriage, class, love, desire, and the country we Americans have made for ourselves." Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

"Bold and unflinching, Safekeeping pierces through the modern American tradition of ignoring war and pretending at peace with real literary ferocity. What a great debut novel." Matt Gallagher, Daybreak

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