Dispatches from Everest

Claire Zoghb's Small House Breathing won the 2008 Quercus Review annual competition. Boundaries, a chapbook, is forthcoming from Blue Lyra Press. Her work has appeared in Connecticut Review, CALYX, Crab Creek Review, Mizna: Prose, Poetry and Art Exploring Arab America (The Lebanon Issue), and Natural Bridge, among others, online at Sukoon, One, and Mezzo Cammin: An Online Journal of Formalist Poetry by Women, and in the anthologies Through A Child's Eyes: Poems and Stories About War and Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems. Her poem "Terminal" was nominated for Best of the Net 2016 by One. Claire was the winner of the 2008 Dogwood annual poetry competition and a finalist in the 6th annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival. She lives in New Haven with her husband Nicolas and works as Graphics Director at Long Wharf Theatre.