Clare Needham is the author of the novella Bad Books, published by Ploughshares Solos in 2015. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in The Stinging Fly, New York Tyrant, Grub Street, Catapult, Bodega Magazine, and elsewhere. Her poems have also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and The Best American Poetry series, and her work has received support from MacDowell, the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. In 2016, she received an M.F.A. in fiction from Hunter College, where she was a recipient of the Pearl Schwartz Scholarship. She is currently working on a novel.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Clare Needham
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011
Studios
Mansfield
Clare Needham worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Helen Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club. The small, shingled frame structure with stone foundation was originally fronted on the west side by a neat white picket fence and gate, a garden, and a stone pathway…