Clare Flanagan is a Brooklyn-based poet, music writer, and conversational designer. Raised in Minnesota, she has a BA in English from Stanford University and an MFA in poetry from New York University, where she was a 2022-2024 Wiley Birkhofer fellow. Her poems can be found in Poetry Online, Action, Spectacle, Grist, and Poetry Northwest, among other publications. When she’s not at work on her full-length manuscript, she enjoys reading, long-distance running, and listening to Charli XCX.