Claire PhillipsClaire Phillips is co-founder and director of the Los Angeles Writers Reading Series, is the author of the novella Black Market Babies (11th Hour Press, 1998) and as a young poet at San Francisco State won the First Prize from the Acadey of American Poets. She is a regular contributor to Black Clock magazine, where her essay "Hanging from the Chandeliers" appeared and then received a Pushcart nomination and notable mention in The Best American Essays 2015. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Motherboard-Vice and can be heard on the KQED Writers' Block and found at viralnet.net. In May 2019 she read in Jill Soloway's famed Sit n' Spin series on the Comedy Central stage. She resides in Los Angeles where she teaches critical and creative writing at the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts), the Southern California Institute for Architecture (SCI-Arc), and at UC Irvine. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from New York University, and a BA in English from San Francisco State University. Read More Read Less