Claire Stephens was born in North Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1987. She is a cartoonist and a writer, mostly of science fiction and personal essays like Lady in Ink, a comics chapbook about tattoos and gender that was released in 2015. Her MFA thesis won the 2013 Outstanding Thesis or Dissertation Award at the University of South Florida. Read More You can find her work in Prick of the Spindle, A Bad Penny Review, and elsewhere. She currently teaches writing at the University of South Florida.