Claire Hopple lives in Asheville, NC, though she is quick to claim her Pittsburgh roots. She loves reading, writing, and cupcakes. She grew up running through the woods barefoot with her best friend. Her love of reading started with Roald Dahl books, the Goosebumps series and Nancy Drew mysteries.
Her more current book obsessions are authored by Lorrie Moore, Deborah Eisenberg, Nathan Englander, Joan Didion, Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Lethem, Amelia Gray, Joyce Carol Oates, John Edgar Wideman and others.
Her short fiction has appeared in the following literary journals and magazines:
- Hobart
- Monkeybicycle
- Bluestem Magazine
- Maudlin House
- Timber
- Quarter After Eight
- Noctua Review
- District Lit
- Knee-Jerk Magazine
- Souvenir Lit Journal
- Hermeneutic Chaos
- Breakwater Review
- Heavy Feather Review (forthcoming)
- Limestone Journal
- Cease, Cows
- Third Point Press
- (b)OINK zine
- apt
- The Harpoon Review
- Five:2:One Magazine (forthcoming)
- Crab Fat Magazine
- Liminoid Magazine
- Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
- Referential Magazine
- Jellyfish Review
- fluland
- Easy Street
- Clamor
- Hackwriters
She’s a regular columnist at Maudlin House. Her column Read This, Watch That is published the second Saturday of each month. She’s also Fiction Co-Editor at Rabble Lit. Send her some good stuff to read.
Contact Claire or view her Essential Fiction Reading List.
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