Claire Oleson is a queer writer and 2020 Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Joyland, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Foglifter, among others. Her chapbook of short stories, Things from the Creek Bed We Could Have Been, debuted May 2020 from Newfound Press. Oleson is represented by Eloy Bleifuss at Neon Literary. Find her online at www.claire-oleson.com
Review
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A Little More Than Life: In Defense of Some Barely Mitigated Suffering
On Dogs by C. Mallon Catastrophic and violent, C. Mallon’s debut novel, Dogs (Scribner, 2025), is littered with pink. Pink is an interior color here, less pillow, more brain, less […]
Why We Chose It
Winter 2025
Why We Chose It: “I Do Not Know Lucy Ives”
I Do Not Know Lucy Ives appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Kenyon Review. Sam Bodrojan’s review of Lucy Ives’s essay collection An Image of My Name Enters […]
Why We Chose It
Spring 2023
Why We Chose It: “Two House Cats, Bearing News”
“Two House Cats, Bearing News” by Michael Tod Powers appears in the Spring 2023 issue of The Kenyon Review. Moving between the voices of three family members, “Two House Cats […]