Claire Donato
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September 12, 1986
Claire Donato | |
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| Born | Claire Elisabeth Donato September 12, 1986 Wilmington, Delaware |
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| Notable work | Burial (2013), The Second Body (2016), The One on Earth: Selected Works of Mark Baumer (2021), Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts (2023). |
Claire Elisabeth Donato (born September 12, 1986, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York.[1][2]
Donato grew up in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2010, she received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University,[3] where she studied with C.D. Wright, John Cayley, and Keith Waldrop. Prior to attending Brown, she received a BA in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied with Ross Gay.[4]
Career
In addition to her writing, Donato is the creator of various feminist digital artworks and performance interventions, and is also an illustrator, photographer, singer-songwriter, and practitioner of Zen meditation. [7][8][1][9] She has collaborated with artists including Anna Moschovakis, Told Slant, David Jhave Johnston, Anastasios Karnazes, Patty Gone, Naomi Falk, and Mark Baumer.[1][10] She is the Assistant Chairperson of Writing at Pratt Institute, where she virtually addressed the Class of 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][11][12]
Donato is currently training to be a psychoanalyst.[13]
Works
Donato's works include publications in Forever, Parapraxis, GoldFlakePaint, The Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Oversound, VICE, DIAGRAM, The Believer, BOMB, and Harp & Altar.[14] Her books are:
- Someone Else's Body (chapbook) (Cannibal Books, 2009)[15]
- Burial (novella) (Tarpaulin Sky Books, 2013)[16][17][18][19][14][20]
- The Second Body (poetry collection) (Poor Claudia, 2016)[21]
- The One on Earth: Selected Works on Mark Baumer (introduction to prose anthology) (Fence Books, 2021)[15]
- Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts (short story collection) (Archway Editions, 2023)[22][23]
- Woebegone (chapbook) (Theaphora, 2024)[24]
Her collaboration with Jeff T. Johnson on SPECIAL AMERICA was an ongoing performance that ended in 2016.[25] This work started within the electronic literature community as a performance and was translated as a movie.[26] She collaborated on netprovs such as All Time High.[27] Her video-based work, Material Studies, has been shown at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) PS1, Knockdown Center, Harvard University, and University Fernando Pessoa.[28]
