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 fiction and non-fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, VQR, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Granta, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, Iowa Review, and Indiana Review. Their story "New Bees" won a 2020 Pushcart Prize.


Claire is a 2024-25 Radcliffe Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. They've also received grants and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, the.Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, MacDowell, Yaddo, the James Merrill House, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Millay Colony, Lighthouse Works, John Carroll University, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.


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