Claire Donato | |
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Born | Claire Elisabeth Donato September 12, 1986 Wilmington, DE |
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Notable work | Burial (2013), The Second Body (2016), The One on Earth: Selected Works of Mark Baumer (2021), Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts (2023). |
Claire Elisabeth Donato (born September 12, 1986, in Wilmington, DE) is an American writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. [1] [2]
Donato grew up in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2010, she received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, [3] where she studied with C.D. Wright and Keith Waldrop. Prior to attending Brown, she received a BA in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied with Ross Gay.
Her first language was French. [4] [2] [5]
In addition to her writing, Donato is the creator of various feminist digital artworks and performance interventions, and is also an illustrator, photographer, singer-songwriter, and practitioner of Zen meditation. [6] [7] [1] [8] She has collaborated with artists including Anna Moschovakis, Told Slant, David Jhave Johnston, Anastasios Karnazes, and Mark Baumer. [1] [9] She is currently the Assistant Chairperson of Writing at Pratt Institute, where she virtually addressed the Class of 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic alongside Neil Gaiman. [2] [10]
Donato's works include publications in Forever, Parapraxis, GoldFlakePaint, The Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Oversound, VICE, DIAGRAM, The Believer, BOMB, and Harp & Altar. [11] Her books are:
Her collaboration with Jeff T. Johnson on SPECIAL AMERICA was an ongoing performance that ended in 2016. [20] This work started within the electronic literature community as a performance and was translated as a movie. [21] She collaborated on netprovs such as All Time High. [22] Her video-based work, Material Studies has been shown at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) PS1, Knockdown Center, Harvard University, and University Fernando Pessoa. [23]
John Hawkes Prize in Fiction for Burial [5] judged by Robert Coover. [2]
2020 Distinguished Teacher Award at Pratt Institute [11]
Claire Donato | |
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Born | Claire Elisabeth Donato September 12, 1986 Wilmington, DE |
Alma mater | |
Notable work | Burial (2013), The Second Body (2016), The One on Earth: Selected Works of Mark Baumer (2021), Kind Mirrors, Ugly Ghosts (2023). |
Claire Elisabeth Donato (born September 12, 1986, in Wilmington, DE) is an American writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. [1] [2]
Donato grew up in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2010, she received her MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, [3] where she studied with C.D. Wright and Keith Waldrop. Prior to attending Brown, she received a BA in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied with Ross Gay.
Her first language was French. [4] [2] [5]
In addition to her writing, Donato is the creator of various feminist digital artworks and performance interventions, and is also an illustrator, photographer, singer-songwriter, and practitioner of Zen meditation. [6] [7] [1] [8] She has collaborated with artists including Anna Moschovakis, Told Slant, David Jhave Johnston, Anastasios Karnazes, and Mark Baumer. [1] [9] She is currently the Assistant Chairperson of Writing at Pratt Institute, where she virtually addressed the Class of 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic alongside Neil Gaiman. [2] [10]
Donato's works include publications in Forever, Parapraxis, GoldFlakePaint, The Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Oversound, VICE, DIAGRAM, The Believer, BOMB, and Harp & Altar. [11] Her books are:
Her collaboration with Jeff T. Johnson on SPECIAL AMERICA was an ongoing performance that ended in 2016. [20] This work started within the electronic literature community as a performance and was translated as a movie. [21] She collaborated on netprovs such as All Time High. [22] Her video-based work, Material Studies has been shown at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) PS1, Knockdown Center, Harvard University, and University Fernando Pessoa. [23]
John Hawkes Prize in Fiction for Burial [5] judged by Robert Coover. [2]
2020 Distinguished Teacher Award at Pratt Institute [11]