Claudia Kessel works as a grant writer in Williamsburg, Virginia. Her poetry has been published in Richmond Magazine as a finalist in the 2021 Shann Palmer Poetry Contest, awarded by James River Writers, in the 2024 Poetry Society of Virginia anthology, and in literary journals Ekstasis, Arkana, Neologism Poetry Journal, Shot Glass Journal, Literary Mama, Uppagus, and Lullwater Review.
