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Clare Wu grew up in upstate New York. She studied creative writing at Yale and Cornell, and has taken classes at The Writer's Center in Bethesda. Nevertheless, she remains an outside artist, a coffee shop writer, a back of napkin jotter. She spends as much time as possible traveling to different artist residencies around the country to work on novels, but has spent the past few years writing a series of screenplays that are teaching her as much about film and television, as writing novels has taught her about books.
For her formal education, she earned a degree from Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She graduated from American University’s law school in 2004, and from Howard University with a master's in Occupational Therapy in 2014. She spent seven years performing estate planning for same-sex couples before the Civil Marriage Protection Act was passed in Maryland in 2011, and practicing employment discrimination in DC, defending the rights of people with disabilities to work. Following that, she became a practicing occupational therapist, focusing in neurology -- until the onset of the global pandemic, which drafted her and every other healthcare provider in the world, into the fight against COVID.
Clare is a member of The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. She has been awarded writing residencies at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony, the I-Park Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. She is a multiple time Pollack-Krasner Award winner has won awards from the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, and from the Hambidge Foundation. She also served on the creative writing jury for the Vermont Studio Center's 2018 and 2019 award seasons. The Adirondack Review shortlisted a novel excerpt of Clare's for its Fulton Prize for fiction in 2015.
When not working, Clare can be found engaging in thrill-seeking adventures with friends. She has a black belt in karate and is a certified rescue scuba diver. She has a background in dance and loves music. Her favorite meteor shower is the Pleiades.
For her formal education, she earned a degree from Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She graduated from American University’s law school in 2004, and from Howard University with a master's in Occupational Therapy in 2014. She spent seven years performing estate planning for same-sex couples before the Civil Marriage Protection Act was passed in Maryland in 2011, and practicing employment discrimination in DC, defending the rights of people with disabilities to work. Following that, she became a practicing occupational therapist, focusing in neurology -- until the onset of the global pandemic, which drafted her and every other healthcare provider in the world, into the fight against COVID.
Clare is a member of The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers. She has been awarded writing residencies at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Byrdcliffe Art Colony, the I-Park Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center. She is a multiple time Pollack-Krasner Award winner has won awards from the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers, and from the Hambidge Foundation. She also served on the creative writing jury for the Vermont Studio Center's 2018 and 2019 award seasons. The Adirondack Review shortlisted a novel excerpt of Clare's for its Fulton Prize for fiction in 2015.
When not working, Clare can be found engaging in thrill-seeking adventures with friends. She has a black belt in karate and is a certified rescue scuba diver. She has a background in dance and loves music. Her favorite meteor shower is the Pleiades.