Claudia Love Mair

For our eleventh episode, we talk to Claudia Love Mair, author and coordinator of the Carnegie Center’s Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative. Claudia Love discusses the importance of names in her life and shares a prompt that will make you see your own name—and yourself—in a new way.

Claudia Love advises all writers to “stay open. All around you are [writing] prompts. There are prompts in the trees and in the clouds and in your mother’s face. So, don’t look at prompts as only being, you know, words on paper or something that you get at a workshop, something in the books. There are prompts all around you. Take advantage and keep writing.”

About Claudia Love Mair

Claudia Love Mair is the author of eleven books, including a memoir, Don’t You Fall Now, a biography, and eight novels. She holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University, and is the coordinator for the Carnegie Center’s  Kentucky Black Writers Collaborative. She lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky. 

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