
Claudia Monpere
Writer
Coming October 2026:
The Periodic Family
Cowboy Jamboree Press
A couple tours an authoritarian preschool required for their genius daughter, a child loses and replaces different body parts, a gambling woman steals from her mother, a sister searches freeway encampments for her brother, a girl tries to rein in her father’s earthquake obsession. Yet they survive. They sing, forging family wherever they can.

“The word masterclass is thrown around all too easily these days, but Claudia Monpere’s The Periodic Family is certainly a masterclass in flash. Each of these stories sparkles with sinister goodness in every line: so compelling, so creative. I can’t wait for you to read this.”
– Christopher Allen,
Publisher of SmokeLong Quarterly
