Claudia Savage

Claudia F. Saleeby Savage is part of the performance duo Thick in the Throat, Honey. Her latest collection of poetry is Bruising Continents (Spuyten Duyvil) with recent work in BOMB, Denver Quarterly, Columbia, Water-Stone Review, and Anomaly. She is a 2018-2021 Black Earth Institute Fellow and her collaboration, reductions, about motherhood and ephemerality with visual artist Jacklyn Brickman, is forthcoming in Portland and Detroit in 2022. Her poetics are influenced by rabid reading, Alice Coltrane, and long hikes in drippy forests. She teaches and lives with her husband and daughter in Portland, OR.