@clairehanlon
Grad student, writer, mother, human
This Pillar of Cloud - Image Journal
This Pillar of Cloud - Image Journal
For Now We See Through a Glass, Darkly - Under the Gum Tree
For Now We See Through a Glass, Darkly - Under the Gum Tree
Published in the October, 2025 issue of Under the Gum Tree, available for digital or print purchase at
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CLAIRE HANLON
CLAIRE HANLON
Author, human
Fiction
The Giant Who Came Down from the Mountain — Corvid Queen
The Giant Who Came Down from the Mountain — Corvid Queen
The Cupboard - Hominum Journal
The Cupboard - Hominum Journal
Poetry
Twenty-five weeks and four days after the death of a marriage - Literary Mama
Twenty-five weeks and four days after the death of a marriage - Literary Mama
Each day, a little differentand every day feels mostly the same. Blinding sun fades into painted skies. Someone’s high beams slice my windshield at a four-way stop and I find myself sightless in the dusty cockpitof a future derailed. Suddenly,my baby is speaking in sentences, while silver hairs a
Essays
CAUSE AND EFFECT - X-R-A-Y Magazine
CAUSE AND EFFECT - X-R-A-Y Magazine
When the birds burst up and out from the sidewalk grass in front of my car as I’m driving home from the store on Mother’s Day, and I think: how beautiful! as the unexpected blue of their wings flash before me, and then: oh no! did I hit them?—it’s a near thing, a miracle: I miss them, just. Because the birds live, when I arrive home and honk to let my family know I’m back, let’s go, and my husband emerges, he does not stare perplexedly at the bumper of our newly-purchased SUV. And, because the birds are both still...
Like Jonah I am Swallowed Down - The Other Journal
Like Jonah I am Swallowed Down - The Other Journal
Let’s Say This is a Self-Graded Exam and Not a True Story From Your Life - HAD
Let’s Say This is a Self-Graded Exam and Not a True Story From Your Life - HAD
Say you’re 29. About to turn 30. Oldest you’ve ever been and your life is a mess. Everywhere you look there are headlines: 26-year-old debut author wins prestigious award; 24-year-old tech wunderkind blah blah blah. And here you are, divorc
Sheltered Missionary Kid Returns to America in the Year of Our Lord Jack and Rose - HAD
Sheltered Missionary Kid Returns to America in the Year of Our Lord Jack and Rose - HAD
1997. Fifth grade. New kid: me. Old enough to know Leo didn’t do it for me, too young to see the film. Young enough to be scandalized by rumors of boobs on the big screen, old enough to know, when asked why I hadn’t seen Titanic, that I sho
I am She and She is Me and We are They and They are all Together in This Speculative Memoir - Fatal Flaw
I am She and She is Me and We are They and They are all Together in This Speculative Memoir - Fatal Flaw
Read "I am She and She is Me and We are They and They are all Together in This Speculative Memoir," an essay by Claire Hanlon at Fatal Flaw Literary Magazine.
Woman as Ouroboros - Anti-Heroine Chic
Woman as Ouroboros - Anti-Heroine Chic
Dennis Sparks CC Woman as Ouroboros 1. Trial by Fire She will start by making allowances for him. They are, after all, of an age where everyone drinks to excess. When he finds work at...
Three Tales in Which I Am Not the Princess - Talk Vomit
Three Tales in Which I Am Not the Princess - Talk Vomit
MOTIF (T118) Girl married to (enamored of) a monster.
Vanitas - Blood Orange Review
Vanitas - Blood Orange Review
Imagine a darkened stage. Here is an everywoman—thirties, dark hair, glasses—sitting on a plain wooden chair.
Washerwoman — Coffee + Crumbs
Washerwoman — Coffee + Crumbs
By Claire Hanlon @loveyclairey 1. Lint In college, I collected dryer lint. There was a certain dorm on my campus, behind which slabs of lint would accumulate. How it ended up outside the laundry room I never figured out. Did students dump it back there? Did it blow in from elsewhere like fluffy
Self-help guide for the weary Psyche — Blood Tree Literature
Self-help guide for the weary Psyche — Blood Tree Literature
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