[Fiction, Short Stories, Poetry]

Claudia is the author of two novels, Dolly: The Memoirs of a High School Graduate and If You Love Me, Come, and a short story series about the feisty character, Wanda B. Wonders. Claudia’s premiere poetry collection is Soft Tsunami. Her short fiction has appeared in a host of anthologies, including Longing, Lust, and Love: Black Lesbian Stories, Purple Panties, and Bombshells and Bois and Gaslight. Claudia is a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow of the Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices.