Claudine R. Moreau

Claudine R. Moreau grew up in the coal-mined mountains of southwestern Pennsylvania. She attended schools in West Virginia and North Carolina where she studied physics and writing. She's had many odd jobs including hospital dishwasher, Harvard lung study field tech, biscuit maker, toilet cleaner, pizza-joint waitress, cafeteria lady, peer review coordinator for NASA, cement mixer, and university professor. Claudine is currently in the Physics Department at Elon University located in the Piedmont region of North Carolina where she teaches physics and astronomy. Her poetry has appeared in Tar River Poetry, The Pinch, Pivot, Neon, Segue, The Bitter Oleander, Arsenic Lobster, and Oysters and Chocolate. Her fiction recently appeared in PANK. She won The Pinch 2011 literary award for poetry.