A Pushcart Prize nominee, Claire Massey’s award-winning work appears in an array of journals, including Literally Stories, Streetlight Magazine, Halfway Down the Stairs, Green Ink Poetry Press, Bright Flash Literary Review, Lucky Jefferson, Bronze Bird Review, and is forthcoming in IO Journal. She has worked as prose editor for the Emerald Coast Review and is currently poetry editor for the quarterly print magazine, The Pen Woman. In her role as creative writing teacher for the Center for Lifelong Learning of Northwest Florida, USA, she enjoys stimulating exchanges with budding writers. Read more of her stories in her most recent collection, Awake in the Sacred Night: Stories and Poems, 2025, from Backstory Publishing.
Stories:
The Night the River Sang
AI Husband
Lost in Translation
Author image Photo by Anne Baeh
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