Claire Scott is an award winning poet who has published in numerous literary magazines. She has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize (2014 and 2015). She was also a semi-finalist for both the 2104 Pangaea Prize and the 2014 Atlantis Award. Claire is a winner of the Arizona State Poetry Society 2013 Annual Poetry Contest. She is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Berkeley, California. Claire lives with her husband in Oakland, California.