My official bio reads like this:
Claire Oshetsky is the author of the novels EVIL GENIUS (February 2026) POOR DEER (January 2024) and CHOUETTE (November 2021).
POOR DEER was named a "Best Book of 2024" by the New Yorker, and is a finalist for California's Golden Poppy Award. The audiobook adaptation of POOR DEER, read by Sophie Amoss, is a finalist for the 2025 Audie Award Audiobook of the Year.
CHOUETTE was longlisted for the 2022 Pen/Faulkner award for fiction and won the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. It was a finalist for the Barbellion Prize, dedicated to the furtherance of disabled voices in literature, and for the 2022 Otherwise Prize, awarded to works of science fiction or fantasy that explore gender roles.
Claire's short fiction has been featured in Fiction International, Chicago Quarterly Review, Catamaran, Alaska Quarterly, Hayden's Ferry, North American Review, Massachusetts Review, and many others.
A former science journalist, Claire has written for Wired, Technology Review, The New York Times, and other periodicals. Claire is four-time recipient of the "Article of the Year" award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Claire also wrote THE BOOK OF DOG BY LARK BENOBI, an apocalyptic romp that was named one of the ten best eco-fiction books of 2018 by Brit & Co.
Claire lives with their family in Santa Cruz, California.
