Author Claire Cox stopped by the Bunker to talk about her debut novel, Silver Beach. But before she and Brad got to that, they covered a lot of ground: religion, family trees that have some mis-shaped branches, misfits in high school, never quite fitting in, and teaching and writing.
Don’t let the laughing fool you. They took a deep dive into the what it means to be a writer.
About Claire Cox
Claire Cox is a writer and high school teacher originally from San Diego, California. She earned her
MFA at Hunter College in New York City. Her story “Look at You” was a finalist for the Jeffrey E. Smith
Editors’ Prize and was published inThe Missouri Review; she has also written for Necessary Fiction and
Literary Hub.
Her first novel, Silver Beach, won the Juniper Prize for Fiction and is out now from UMass
Press. She lives in upper Manhattan with her family.
