Claire C. Holland

Claire is an Elgin Award-nominated poet and writer from Philadelphia, currently living in Los Angeles. Her first book of poetry, I Am Not Your Final Girl, is available now. Her poems and essays have been featured in numerous outlets, including Daily Grindhouse, The Bloodlust, and We Are Horror Zine. I Am Not Your Final Girl has been featured on LitReactor, the Tufts Poetry Blog, the Ladies of Horror Fiction Blog, and in Blunt Magazine. It was nominated for the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Associations’s 2019 Elgin Awards. Claire’s writing explores stigmatized issues at the intersections of feminism, sexuality, and horror. She is interested in all forms of art strange, subversive, and scorned by the mainstream - from the gory horror movies you’re afraid to admit you love, to the romance novels you’re embarrassed to mention to your friends. To that end, she also co-hosts a sex-positive podcast exploring romance novels and healthy sexuality. Claire also enjoys binge-watching horror movies with her husband and her Wheaten Terrier, Chief Brody (yes, from Jaws), hiking in the best weather ever, and more recently, learning how to skateboard (slowly… so slowly).