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Photo credit: Opal Turner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

clare e. potter is a writer, performer and educator from Cefn Fforest. She spent ten years in the Deep South where she did an MA in Afro-Caribbean literature. She teaches creative writing at Cardiff University and won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry. \u00a0Her work as been published in Planet<\/em><\/a>, New Welsh Review<\/em><\/a>, Wales Arts Review<\/em><\/a>, Mslexia<\/em><\/a>, Cahoots Magazine<\/em>, Cambrensis<\/em>, The Seminary Ridge Review Journal<\/em><\/a> and various anthologies. Her first poetry collection is spilling histories<\/em>. <\/i>Last year, she received a bursary from Literature Wales<\/a> and has written a subsequent collection, A Certain Darkness<\/em>. <\/i>\u00a0She has written for the Welsh National Opera<\/a> in community theatre and singing projects, and has received various commissions to write poetry in collaboration with artists: a poem for the new Keir Hardie Health Park, and street poetry in the pavements of Pontypridd, for example. She has read at the Hay Festival and at the Smithsonian Folk-Life Festival. She is currently writing two librettos and a film script, working on a jazz\/poetry collaboration and about to begin a collection of poetry in Welsh.<\/p>\n

clare e. potter on Memories of Hurricane Katrina for Wales Arts Review<\/a>
\nAn interview with clare e. potter <\/a>for Welsh Writers’ Trust<\/p>\n

Bibliography<\/strong>:
\nspilling histories<\/em><\/a> (Cinnamon, 2006) ISBN 9780954943370<\/p>\n