Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco is the author of Drive By (Smooth Friend); Certain Things (Afternoon Editions); Quartet (Ugly Duckling Presse); The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited); and petit cadeau, published in live, digital, and print editions by The Chocolate Factory. Her collaborators include visual artist Anne Walsh, choreographers Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener, and musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, with whom she is animals & giraffes, an experiment in interdisciplinary improvisation that performs across the US and has released three albums. She was a critic for The New York Times (2005-15), editorial director of Open Space (2016-21), and now edits The Back Room at Small Press Traffic.