About Claudia

Claudia Smith grew up mostly in Houston, Texas where she attended the High School For the Performing and Visual Arts. Her essays have most recently appeared in The Texas Review, LitHub, The Manifest-Station, The Toast/The Butter, and The Rumpus. She is the author of two flash fiction collections, The Sky Is A Well And Other Shorts (Rose Metal Press) and Put Your Head In My Lap (Future Tense Books). The Sky Is A Well was reprinted as part of A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women. Her story collection, Quarry Light, is available from Magic Helicopter Press. Her flash fiction has appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Norton’s The New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories From America and Beyond and New Micro. Claudia is a lecturer at the University of Houston-Downtown.