Claire Marie Stancek is a writer, editor, and educator. She is the author of five poetry books and one book of essays, including WHO IS THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE (Omnidawn Publishing, forthcoming 2028), Rhyme Between (Essay Press, forthcoming 2027), Double Life (Omnidawn, forthcoming 2027), Operating Moon (Pinsapo, 2026), wyrd] bird (Omnidawn, 2020), Oil Spell (Omnidawn, 2018), and MOUTHS (Noemi, 2017). With Daniel Benjamin, she co-edited Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba/Giramondo, 2016). With Jane Gregory and the late Lyn Hejinian, she co-founded Nion Editions, a chapbook press. Claire Marie earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto and holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Philadelphia.