Claire Guo

Claire Y. Guo is a fiction writer and poet based in San Jose, California. She is an alumna of the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program and the Iowa Young Writers Program, a 2026 Emerging SmokeLong Fellow and the grand winner of the SmokeLong Grand Micro Prize. Her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and is published or is forthcoming in SmokeLong Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, Fractured Lit, Flash Frog, Trampset, and The National Poetry Quarterly. When she’s not editing, she loves to collect fountain pens and funny words (like kerfuffle).