Photography by Kristen Brunelli, 2023

Claire Denson’s writing appears or is forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Cincinnati Review, The Missouri Review, The Massachusetts Review, Salt Hill Journal, and the minnesota review, among others. Her poems have been anthologized in Peach Mag, BOOTH, and Best of Versification as well as nominated for The Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets. Her work has been featured in Literary Hub, Micro Podcast, downtown Ann Arbor, and elsewhere. 

She has received awards and support from Brooklyn Poets, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, The International T. S. Eliot Society, the University of Michigan, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she earned her MFA, taught English courses, and taught in the University Writing Center.

Claire has tutored with the non-profit 826National, worked with outlets such as The Adroit Journal, The Greensboro Review, and Foundry Literary + Media, and planned and managed various events. She now works with Atmosphere Press and lives in New York.