CLAIRE MILLIKIN grew up in Georgia, North Carolina, and overseas. She received her BA in Philosophy from Yale University; earned her MFA in poetry from New York University, and Ph.D in English Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She currently teaches Art History and Sociology, as a Lecturer at University of Virginia.Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, and has published the chapbook The Gleaners (Tiger's Eye Press, 2013), and her first poetry collection, Museum of Snow (Grayson Books, 2013).The recipient of several fellowships, honors and awards, Millikin participates in numerous conferences, colloquia, presentations and workshops around the country, that capture a wide range of topics, including women's literature, femininity, gender and violence, gothic and ghosts, poverty and race relations.