Claire Luchette

Claire Luchette is the author of the novel Agatha of Little Neon and 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.


A National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, Claire has received grants and fellowships from 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.

 
Currently they live in New York, where they're the 2022-3 Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellow at the NYPL's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers.