Claire Phillips is the author of the novella, Black Market Babies (11th Hour) and the recipient of the Academy of American Poets, First Prize. She received a notable mention in The Best American Essays, 2015 for her short memoir Hanging from the Chandeliers. A Pushcart nominee and regular contributor for Black Clock magazine, she has read for the publication with notable authors Mark L. Danielewski, Jonathan Lethem, Rick Moody, and Geoff Nicholson, and participated in the 2014 LA Lit Crawl. Her speculative fiction can be heard on the KQED Writers' Block and found at viral.net. She has given readings at Machine Project, Skylight Books, City Lights, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafè, and appeared in the Visiting Artists series at the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts).
She is co-founder and director of the Los Angeles Writers Reading Series, now in its seventh year at Glendale College. Appearances by notable authors include Aimee Bender, Craig Clevenger, Bernard Cooper, James Ellory, Janet Fitch, Amy Gerstler, Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum, David L. Llin, and D.J. Waldie among others.
In 2011/2012, she was Visiting Faculty in the MFA Creative Writing Program at CalArts, and has been interviewed twice for the Black Clock Blog.
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