About
Claudia Creed is a British and American poet, theatre-maker, and trained clown based out of London. She is currently studying for an MFA in poetry at the Helen Zell Writers' Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she received a Hopwood Award for Graduate Poetry, judged by Paisley Rekdal and Stephanie Burt. Her work was selected as a finalist for the Connecticut Poetry Society's 2023 experimental poetry contest. She has worked as a writer and performer for The Goat Exchange theater company.
Research Interests: the Metaphysical Poets; contemporary queer poetics; aesthetic philosophy and critical theory; language poetry and nonsense poetry.