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Bio: Clayre Benzadón (she / they) is a queer Jewish poet, educator, and activist. Her manuscript, Moon as Salted Lemon, was published by Driftwood Press in 2025 and is a 2026 Lammy Finalist for Bisexual Poetry. Her Miami sonnet recently won second place in the Sonnet! Boom competition. She has also been published in places including Penumbra: Literary and Art Journal, Blood + Honey , and SWWIM.

My work explores the flexible boundaries between identity, memory, desire, and fear. Through lyric poetry and hybrid forms and inspired by confession, surrealism, humor, and pop culture, my poems often inhabit states of contradiction: tenderness alongside rage, longing alongside absurdity, joy alongside grief. My poems explore mental illness, queer desire, family, and the strange ways memory alters the stories we tell about ourselves. I am fascinated by the tension between the person I was, the person I am, and the versions of myself that exist only in imagination.