Her debut poetry collection, Eating the Heart First, will be published by Press 53 Fall 2012 as a Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection. Her poetry has appeared in Avatar Review, Poets and Artists, Blue Fifth Review, and A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, among others. Her poems have been nominated for Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web (2011) for Best New Poets and Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net. She is a graduate of University of Louisiana at Lafayette and lifelong Louisiana resident. Clare has written for theatre in collaboration with the company Acting Up (in Acadiana.) She also serves as a Teaching Artist through the Acadiana Center for the Arts, was founder of the “Voices of-” reading series in Lafayette, LA and is a member of the Festival of Words Cultural Arts Collective, Inc. She blogs at Orphans of Dark and Rain