Claire Schwartz

Claire Schwartz is a PhD candidate in African American Studies, American Studies, and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Yale. Her poetry has appeared in Apogee, Cream City Review, Prairie Schooner, and Tupelo Quarterly, and her essays, reviews, and interviews in Electric Literature, the Iowa Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review and elsewhere.

Kai Cheng Thom: Giving Birth To Yourself

By Claire Schwartz August 29, 2016

The writer and performance artist on how queer people of color birth themselves anew, protest politics in Canada, and the poetic beauty of complicated relationships.

Interview Lit World Religion

Sigal Samuel: The Mystics of Mile End

By Claire Schwartz March 31, 2016

Claire Schwartz interviews Sigal Samuel about Kabbalah, queer Jews, and religion as literature.