Publishing poetry as Claire Millikin and scholarship as Claire Raymond, I frame an interdisciplinary approach to poetry and critical theory. Because writing poetry and writing scholarship are different acts, I identify my work in those different genres by using my middle name, Millikin, for poems and my last name, Raymond, for scholarship. As part of academia’s precariat, I taught for many years at the University of Virginia and now for the University of Maine system. I am the author of numerous books of scholarship and poetry, including Mohawk Rebel: Shelley Niro’s Art and New York State (2025); and The Selfie, Temporality, and Contemporary Photography (2021). As a poet, I am a recipient of the 2024 Foreword Indie Award for Poetry, a Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Editor’s Choice Charles Simic Poetry Prize. My poetry book, Magicicada, from Unicorn Press contends with juvenile solitary confinement and is the recipient of the Foreword Indie Gold Award for Poetry. My forthcoming book Nightlight is a searing, multilayered reencounter with my Southern roots, encountering the American southeast as a pivotal space in our contemporary national moment.