Charleen McClure writes and lives a few miles off the Chattahoochee River. A Fulbright scholar, she was a 2020 recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award. Her writing has been supported by VONA, Cave Canem, Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, the Watering Hole, New York University, and the Conversation Lit Festival. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Poetry Project, The Offing, Academy of American Poetry’s Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. McClure made her film debut in All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (A24, 2023), which premiered in the U.S. at Sundance and internationally in Spain at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Her debut poetry collection, d-sorientation, was chosen by Aracelis Girmay for BOA Editions’ Blessing the Boats Selections and is in bookstores now.