Claire Van Winkle is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary translator. She runs the Rockaway Writers' Workshop and teaches writing and literature at CUNY and SUNY. In addition to her creative and academic pursuits, she advocates for the mental health community through a Writing Therapy project she initiated at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Claire's poetry appears in publications including the American Journal of Poetry, Poor Yorick, No Dear, The Thieving Magpie, Three Line Poetry, Sixfold, and anthologies by Rogue Scholars and Black Lawrence Press. Her short fiction, literary essays, and translation reviews have been featured in Belle Ombre, 3 Percent, and Prometheus Dreaming. Her poems will also appear in 2021 volumes by Oddville Press and The Penn Review. Claire has been the recipient of several honors including the inaugural Queens College Foundation Scholarship for Poetry Writing and Literary Translation, an American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship, an American Academy of Poets Award, the Mary M. Fay Poetry Award, and the Lenore Lipstein Memorial Prize for Formal Poetry.
The Most Bitchin’ Brontë: Unleashed Animus in Wuthering Heights Feminist readings of 19th Century British literature are complicated by the fact that the rising awareness of certain issues like cruelty to animals and the mistreatment of children—issues that have always cleaved to feminist theory—challenge social and legal realities at their ideological foundations. The fact…
Forty-six steps from her door to the elevator. Three-hundred-and-seventy-nine to the Starbucks on Astor Place—where she did not work. Five-hundred-and-seventeen more to the Starbucks at Barnes & Noble—where she also did not work. One foot in front of the other: left right left right left right left, six-hundred-and-twenty-three paces to the Starbucks at Broadway…
