Claire Lombardo
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Claire Lombardo is the author of the nationally-bestselling novel Same As It Ever Was. Her debut, The Most Fun We Ever Had, was an instant New York Times bestseller and a Reese’s Book Club pick. Claire is a graduate of the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Her short fiction has appeared in, among others, Playboy, Barrelhouse Magazine, Little Fiction, and Longform. Her story, I Only Want to Talk About the Nice Things, was one of 2016’s Best of the Net, and was #1 on Longform’s 2015 fiction list.
Prior to publishing The Most Fun We Ever Had, Claire spent several years working with homeless children and families in Chicago. She has taught fiction writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Grinnell College and worked as a bookseller at Prairie Lights Books.
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