Claudia Saleeby Savage

Claudia Saleeby Savage is an Arab American poet, essayist, and mama with Multiple Sclerosis whose writing and performance explores displacement and the landscape of the body and has been featured in print, on stage, and in galleries throughout the country. She is the author of 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: A Maligned Vegetable's History, with recent print work in Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, About Place, and River Teeth. A Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best Poets nominee, Saleeby Savage has received support from many organizations including RACC, Ucross, Jentel, The Black Earth Institute (as an emeritus fellow), MARS, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She creates alone and with her music-text duo Thick In The Throat Honey (they were 2019 semi-finalists for a Creative Capital award on the Syrian refugee crisis). She works in the field of renewable energy and lives with her experimental musician husband, daughter, and vocal cat in the Pacific Northwest.