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  <name><![CDATA[Claudia Smith]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Claudia Smith lives and writes in San Antonio, Texas.  
Her fiction has been anthologized in W.W. Norton's The New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond as well as So New Media's Consumed: Women on Excess.  Her collection, The Sky is a Well and Other Shorts, was released in July 2007. The first printing sold out, but was reprinted as part of the book A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks by Four Women.  

And Paste magazine mentioned her chapbook.  That was cool!  

She did not write the book about the Sugar bird listed below.

Her new chapbook, Put Your Head In My Lap, is just out from Future Tense and available from Powell's and Amazon.

reviews and interviews can be found at her site, www.claudiaweb.net
]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Rilke, Mona Simpson, E. B. White, Edna O Brien, William Carlos Williams, and lots of others.]]></influences>  <gender>female</gender>        
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Kathy Fish]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Sky is a Well and Other Shorts]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Put Your Head In My Lap]]></title>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[When the sugar bird sings: The history of maple syrup in Lanark County]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Claudia Smith]]></name>
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  <published>1996</published>  
  
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