Claire Donato

Claire Donato is the author of three full-length books: Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts (Archway Editions), a collection of short fictions; Burial (Tarpaulin Sky Press), a fiction novella; and The Second Body (Poor Claudia), a poetry collection. Her most recent chapbook is Woebegone and Other Poems (Theaphora Editions), for which she co-wrote an accompanying video game. Recent writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Parapraxis, Fence, The Cleveland Review of Books, The Chicago Review, Forever, Oversound, Fonograf Editions’ FE, and BOMB. She is currently writing a novel.

Donato serves as Assistant Chairperson and M.F.A. Advisor of the Writing Department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 2020, she received Pratt Institute’s Distinguished Teacher Award, an honor conferred by the Faculty Senate and Board of Trustees for which she was nominated by the student body. She has also taught at Parsons (The New School for Design), Rutgers University, The Cooper Union, Brown University, and 826 Valencia/NYC.

In addition to her teaching and administrative work, Claire is an LP candidate at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society.