Claire Polders

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    Superstition Review

    How do we behave in unfamiliar environments? When do we know how to trust someone? How do strangers become friends? What is the Hour of Water?

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    Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

    I'm proud that Randall Brown selected my creative nonfiction piece "Marzipan" for publication in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts.

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    Blind Man’s Bluff

    Blind Man’s Bluff by James Tate Hill is a beautifully honest and funny memoir on blindness. Or more accurately, on how the author, struck by a serious eye disease at age sixteen, tried to hide his disability from friends and…

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    In the Dream House

    Machado’s writing is clever, poetic at times, and sharp when it needs to be. The structure of her memoir in very short chapters is the perfect vehicle to tell both a personal tale and dissect the mechanism inherent in the…

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