Claudia M. Reder

I moved to the west coast from the east coast where I was a poet in the schools in PA, DE, NJ, and CA. Previously, I taught in Lesley University’s Creative Arts in Learning Program (I taught Storytelling, Poetry, and Final Project.). I now teach at California State University at Channel Islands. Along with teaching Poetry Workshop, I work with preservice teachers with whom I do a lot of poetry writing and reading in hopes that they will bring new audiences to poetry in the future. How to Disappear, my new poetry manuscript was recently a finalist in the Crab Orchard Review Poetry Series Competition, and a semi-finalist in Trio House Press competition. Finishing Line Press published my chapbook (2012), Uncertain Earth, and Bright Hill Press published My Father & Miro. Also in the works is a poetic memoir, The Body Narrative: Seeking Balance in a Dizzying World. I have attended poetry residencies at Squaw Valley Community for Writers, and Napa Community of Writers, and received two literary fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.