Join hosts Chibbi and Rooster as we welcome Claude Cardona (she/ they) to the Words and Sh*t stage! Tune in to get to know the person behind the poetry!
Claude Delfina Cardona is a poet born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She received her BA from St. Mary's University and her MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. In 2013, she co-founded Chifladazine alongside Laura Valdez, a zine that highlights creative work by Latinas and Latinxs. In 2019, she co-founded Infrarrealista Review, a literary journal for all types of Texan writers, with Linda Rivas Vázquez. Cardona loves music and films as much as she loves poetry. She is an aspiring DJ and cultural critic.
Winner of the Fall 2020 Host Publication Chap Book Prize, Claudia's book, WHAT REMAINS, is a collection of poems propelled by impulse, desire, and an ancestral sense of longing. These poems are experiential; they exist within the dark and splendid catacombs of the body, in dusty moonlit Texas nights, and invite us into their own glittery mythos of what it means to be a young woman falling in and out of love in San Antonio.
