Claire Luchette
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Claire Luchette is an American novelist whose fiction explores unconventional lives, loneliness, identity, and the search for belonging. Their debut novel, Agatha of Little Neon (2021), follows a young Catholic sister navigating faith, friendship, and life outside the convent. The book received widespread critical acclaim, and Luchette was named one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honorees. Their short fiction and essays have appeared in literary publications including Granta, Ploughshares, and Virginia Quarterly Review. Luchette has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center. They teach creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
