Claire Millikin is a professor, scholar, and the author of several collections of poetry, including the chapbook The Gleaners (2013), her first poetry collection, Museum of Snow (2013), Television (2016); and two poetry collections with 2Leaf Press, After Houses (2014) and Tartessos and Other Cities (2016). Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines. Her recent scholarly works (published under Claire Raymond) include The Posthumous Voice in Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath (2016), Francesca Woodman's Dark Gaze: The Diazotypes and Other Late Works (2016), Witnessing Sadism in Texts of the American South: Women, Specularity, and the Poetics of Subjectivity (2014), and Francesca Woodman and the Kantian Sublime (2010). Millikin currently teaches Art History and Sociology as a Lecturer at University of Virginia.

Other poems by Claire Millikin in Verse Daily:
November 6, 2019:   "Back to Carthage" "Pay that slight money, our feet on the bus..."
December 15, 2016:   "Ephebe" "My father once had a student whom he loved..."
August 6, 2015:   "Dusk Waitress" "At the end of childhood, I worked in a restaurant...."
February 4, 2014:   "The Foxes" "Step by step, door by door, she opened the house..."

Books by Claire Millikin:

Other poems on the web by Claire Millikin:
"Fox"
"Materiality in Poetry"

About Ransom Street:

"Claire Millikin's stunning new collection...tells in sharpened lyric moments the story of a young woman's coming of age in the face of violence, violation, homelessness, utter alone-ness. But, as the episodes unfold, and the pain is recalled and endured, there emerges from the corner of our eyes an image of a woman who has all along been forging her own fully-realized self and the voice thereof. Keats called our suffering a 'vale of soul-making.' Down in that valley is where we find Ransom Street and this poetry of every wakened nerve."
—Fred Marchant