In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation

Claire Calderón is an Oakland-based writer and reader with a fondness for stories from the fringes. She is at work on her debut novel, Tomato Skin, a speculative biography about her Chilean bisabuela’s life in the shadows.

Claire Calderón

Uncomfortable Somethings: On Isabel Zapata’s “In Vitro”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

Voyager: Constellations of Memory

In a Life I Never Had I Was a Brave Cosmonaut: On Nona Fernández’s “Voyager”

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

Biography &amp; Autobiography

Claire Calderón is an Oakland-based writer and reader with a fondness for stories from the fringes. She is at work on her debut novel, Tomato Skin, a speculative biography about her Chilean bisabuela’s life in the shadows.