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Claire Braz-Valentine is a widely published, award-winning and internationally produced poet, playwright, and journalist. Claire has worked with youth at risk and incarcerated adults and teenagers for many years. She is one a few writers who is approved to work in maximum security prisons in the state of California. Claire also teaches play writing for the University of California Extension and Butte College.
She offers private writing workshops in Chico and Paradise, CA.
Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for Humanities, the California Arts Council, The Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County and The Puffin Foundaiton. |
 Listen to a reading of An Open Letter to John Ashcroft
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| She is a member of the National Writers Union and the International Center for Women Playwrights. | ||