Author Talk: Claudia Gary

"Time and Other Solvents"

Join Claudia Gary for a reading of select poems from her book, "Time and Other Solvents." Book sales and signing will follow the reading.  

Claudia Gary will be reading and discussing her latest work, Time and Other Solvents, a story of healing told in poems. Having acquired an eating disorder as a teenager, she later found that writing poetry helped her overcome it. Her decision in midlife to write about that healing process, in the form of finely crafted poems, was made in the hope that her story can help others find ways to heal through writing and other art forms. 

This event will be livestreamed. Watch it here →

About the author

Claudia Gary teaches workshops on Sonnets, Villanelles, Natural Meter, Persona Poems, Poetry vs. Trauma, etc., at The Writer’s Center and privately. The author of Time and Other Solvents (Sligo Creek Publishing, 2026), Humor Me (2006), and several chapbooks, most recently Genetic Revisionism, she is an advisory editor for New Verse Review, as well as a health and science writer, visual artist, and composer of tonal art songs and chamber music. A semifinalist for the Anthony Hecht Prize (Waywiser), Pushcart Prize nominee, Honorable Mentionee in the Able Muse book contest, and three-time finalist in the Howard Nemerov Sonnet Contest, Claudia has chaired panels on Poetry and Music, Poetry and Science, and The Sonnet in 2016, at the West Chester University Poetry Conference; and on Poetry and Music at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference. 

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