Claire Scott has published poetry in a number of literary magazines. She was recently nominated for the 2015 Pushcart Prize. Claire is a winner of the Arizona State Poetry Society 2013 Annual Poetry Contest. She has published in Trivia, Write Wing, Stepping Stones, Epiphany, Organs of Vision and Speech, Red Savina Review, Writers Tribe Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, Common Threads, Poydras Review, Literary Yard and First Day. Claire is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a private practice in Berkeley, CA. She has two children, two children by marriage and four grandchildren. She lives with her husband in Oakland, CA.