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Claire Foster

Claire Foster is a writer, bookseller, and literary translator from French. Her writing and translations have appeared in The Hopkins Review, Public Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her translation of Valérie Manteau’s novel The Furrow (winner of the 2018 Prix Renaudot) is forthcoming from Invisible in 2026. Born and raised in Ohio, Foster lives and works in Toronto.