Welcome. I write flash fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and teach at Santa Clara University. M.F.A.— San Francisco State University. Wrote a poetry thesis, but fell in love with flash fiction & flash creative nonfiction after an amazing Smokelong Summer.
My flash appears in many lovely lit mags, including Split Lip, Craft, SmokeLong Quarterly, Trampset, Atlas and Alice, Milk Candy Review, and The Forge. Poems in The Cincinnati Review, Plume, Prairie Schooner, New Ohio Review, Hunger Mountain, and elsewhere. I won the 2024 New Flash Fiction Prize from New Flash Fiction Review and the 2024 Refractions: Genre Flash Fiction Prize from Uncharted Magazine. My story, Solar Flare received the 2023 Smokelong workshop prize and appears in Best Small Fictions 2024.
Claudia Monpere, Writer 