Claire Luchette

Claire Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon (FSG, 2021) and the recipient of a Whiting Award. Their second novel, Swans, and a story collection, Big Whoop, are forthcoming from FSG. 

A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, Claire's writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Granta, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, and Indiana Review, and their story "New Bees" won a Pushcart Prize. 

They were a Lisa Goldberg fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, a Rona Jaffe fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and a James C. McCreight fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Their work has also received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Lighthouse Works. 

They studied at Brown University and the MFA program at the University of Oregon, and now they teach creative writing at Binghamton University and live in New York.