About
Claire is an artist, writer, educator, designer, and illustrator. She lives in an old house in Peoria, Illinois. If reincarnation is the upshot, she’d like to come back as a basset hound or, failing that, a redwood.
At this very minute, Claire is probably writing and drawing Human Resources, a dystopic science-fiction murder mystery set in the near-ish future, when much of North America is under water and big cities have built levees taller than skyscrapers to protect themselves from a drastically altered planet.
Follow her progress on Instagram @threecashew or on Twitter @ThreeCashew.
PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
“Girl’s Guide to Personal Hygiene and Cell Decay,” a comics essay inThe Rumpus’ Spotlight Series, 2019
Art for “Invisibility,” a comics collaboration with writer and translator Edward Gauvin for Arkansas International, Issue 5, 2018
Art for "Native Tongue," a comics collaboration with writer and translator Edward Gauvin forWords Without Borders, 2017
Lady in Ink, a comics chapbook from Sweet Publications, 2015
A selection from Human Resources, an in-progress graphic novel, in Imaginative Writing, by Janet Burroway (4th ed.), 2013
"Wedding Photo" & "Letter to Planet Earth at 9:47 Sunday Morning," graphic poems in The Bad Penny Review, 2011
"Weekend" & "In Which My Dreams Prove that I am a Storyteller," graphic poems, and "Rules of the Game" & "What I Haven’t Told You, " poems, in Prick of the Spindle, 2011
Cover art and example, pp. 150-151 in Dynamic Color Painting for the Beginner by Diane Edison, 2008
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Teaching Hybrid," Chair, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Fairhope, AL, 2018
“It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: How Five Writers Became Cartoonists,” Panelist, Other Words, St. Augustine, FL, 2015
“The Re-emergence of Book Arts,” Chair, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Seattle, WA, 2014
“Writing Comics the AWP Way,” Panelist, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Seattle, WA, 2014
“Sweet: A Literary Confection: Chapbook Making Workshop,” Chair, Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers, Fairhope, AL, 2013
“Reflecting on the Work We Do: Developing Consultant Training Manuals as Praxis,” Panelist, Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 2013
“Graphic Novels, Poems, Nonfiction, Oh My!,” Panelist, Blank Pages, USF Creative Writing Symposium, Tampa, FL, 2013
“Profanity in Creative Writing,” Chair, Blank Pages, USF Creative Writing Symposium, Tampa, FL, 2012
“Art and Comics as Literature,” Panelist, Blank Pages, USF Creative Writing Symposium, Tampa, FL, 2012
“F#&K!: An Investigation of the Outer Limits,” Chair, FLAC Other Words Conference, St. Augustine, FL, 2011
“The Rebel Grows Up,” Panelist, FLAC Other Words Conference, St. Augustine, FL, 2010
WORKSHOPS
“Breaking Space, Breaking Time: A Comics Master Class,” a two-day workshop for students at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, Fall 2019
"Poetry Comics," a workshop at the FCSPA conference for community/state college newspaper and literary magazine staffs, Fall 2017
Brooks Debartolo Collegiate High School Teach-In, Fall 2016
“Comics and Poetry,” a workshop at the 2016 Sandhill Writer’s Retreat at St. Leo University, Spring 2016
“Visual Thinking & Visual Meetings,” a workshop for USF College of Business MBA students, 2015
READINGS & EVENTS
"Poetry and Prose," reading and automatic ekphrastic event, Timucua Arts Center, Orlando, FL, 2018
"Handmaids Respond: A Literary Speakout," sponsored by Keep St. Pete Lit and the St. Petersburg
League of Women Voters, held at Softwater Studios in St. Pete, FL, 2017
First Draft “Health and Fitness” reading, Southern Brewing & Winery, 2016
“Poetry and Graphic Arts,” a Poetry Month Reading at the University of South Florida, 2013
“Love/Anti-Love,” a 6x6 Reading at USF’s annual Blank Pages Symposium, 2013
“Magic Base Performance Parade,” a USF Contemporary Art Museum educational program, 2012
EDITORSHIPS
Assistant Nonfiction and Poetry Editor, Sweet Publications, 2011-2014
Guest Visual Art Editor, Driftwood Press, 2013
Art Editor, Saw Palm, 2010-2011