Claudine Nash

Winner of the 2020 Blue Light Book Award for her book Beginner's Guide to Loss in the Multiverse (Blue Light Press, 2020), Claudine Nash is a psychologist and author of four other poetry collections including the full-length books The Wild Essential (Kelsay Books: Aldrich Press, 2017) and Parts per Trillion (Kelsay Books:Aldrich Press, 2016) as well as the chapbooks Things for Which You Thirst (Weasel Press, 2020) and The Problem with Loving Ghosts (Finishing Line Press, 2014). She has also edited three anthologies of poetry: Epiphanies and Late Realizations of Love (Transcendent Zero Press, 2019), Destigmatized (Madness Muse Press, 2017) and In So Many Words: A Collection of Interviews and Poetry from Today’s Poets (Madness Muse Press, 2016). Internationally published in a wide range of magazines and anthologies, her work has been nominated for the Pulitzer, Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes and has received numerous literary prizes and distinctions from such publications and artistic organizations as Artists Embassy International, The Song Is... and Eye on Life Magazine among others.