Claire Hamner Matturro has been a journalist in Alabama, a lawyer in Florida, an organic blueberry farmer in Georgia and taught at Florida State University College of Law and University of Oregon School of Law. Raised on tales of errant, unhinged kith and kin and more than a few nefarious whoppers, she counts storytelling as her cultural and genetic inheritance, and her poetry often flows from the urge to tell such tales. She is the author of eight novels, including a series of comedic legal thrillers published by HarperCollins. Her poetry has been published in various journals including Slant and Glassworks. She’s a long-standing associate editor at Southern Literary Review. She and her husband and their rescued, cross-eyed black cat live once more in Florida.