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Claire Phillips

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Claire Phillips is the author of the novella Black Market Babies and recipient of the Academy of American Poets, First Prize. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and received notable mention in The Best American Essays 2015.

Her writing has appeared in Black Clock, Joyland, Largehearted Boy Blog, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Brooklyn Rail, Motherboard-Vice and Vol. 1 Brooklyn, among other places.

Phillips teaches writing at CalArts, SCI-Arc, and U.C. Irvine, and is Director of the Los Angeles Writers Reading at Glendale College. She holds a M.A. in Creative Writing from New York University and a B.A. in English from San Francisco State University.

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A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother and Schizophrenia

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