Claudia F. Saleeby Savage is an Arab-American poet, essayist, and disabled mama whose writing and performance explores diaspora and the landscape of the body. She is the author of the forthcoming first you must destroy the world (First Matter Press, fall 2025), metal used for beauty alone(from The Poetry Box for print + voice), Bruising Continents (Spuyten Duyvil), and The Last One Eaten, with recent work in Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, BOMB, Anomaly, About Place, and River Teeth. She creates alone and with her music-text duo Thick In The Throat Honey (they were 2019 Creative Capital semi-finalists). Saleeby Savage has received support from many organizations including RACC, The Black Earth Institute, Ucross, Jentel, Mineral School and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She works in the field of renewable energy and lives with her experimental jazz musician husband, daughter, and vocal cat in the Pacific Northwest. She can be found on www.claudiafsavage.com, www.thickinthethroathoney.com, and IG @thickinthethroathoney. But, she’d rather you ask her to coffee.