Anna Claire Hodge is a writer based in Jacksonville, Florida, and holds a Ph.D in creative writing from Florida State University.  She is a Visiting Instructor of Writing at the University of North Florida. 

Her poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Southern Indiana Review, Mid-American Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Copper Nickel, and others. They also appear in the anthologies Best New Poets 2013 and It Was Written: Poems Inspired by Hip-Hop.

Honors include a Tennessee Williams Scholarship to Sewanee Writers' Conference, a scholarship to Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, a residency at Vermont Studio Center, as well as nods in numerous contests like the Copper Nickel Poetry Prize, Wabash Prize for Poetry, and the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry.

Anna Claire blogs about fashion, travel, and beauty at To Thine Own Self Be Trill.