Killarney Clary: California Poets Part 11, Five Poems

Killarney Clary

October 20th, 2026

California Poets: Part XI

Killarney Clary

Five Poems

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Author Bio:

Killarney Clary has published four books of prose poetry: Who Whispered Near Me (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), By Common Salt (Oberlin College Press), Potential Stranger, (University of Chicago Press) and Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud (University of Chicago Press), and two chapbooks: By Me, By Any, Can and Can’t Be Done (Greenhouse Review Press) and I’ll Never See Your Version of Blue (Albion Books). She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine (B.A. in Studio Art and M.F.A. in Poetry Writing), she has taught Poetry Writing in the M.F.A. programs at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Iowa.

Born in Pasadena and having spent most of her life in the Los Angeles area, she now lives near Santa Cruz, California.