Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Wilder (2018), Redmouth (2019), and, most recently, Meltwater (2023), which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award and Minnesota Book Award. Her work has appeared widely, including in The Anarchist Review of Books, The Hopkins Review, Cream City Review, TriQuarterly, Sierra, and Washington Square Review. A 2020-2021 McKnight Writing Fellow and the winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize, she lives in the Twin Cities.