Claudia Saleeby Savage is a poet, essayist, and disabled mama whose writing and performance explores diaspora and the landscape of the body. She is the author of metal used for beauty alone (from The Poetry Box for print + voice), Bruising Continents (Spuyten Duyvil), and The Last One Eaten, with recent work in Poetry Northwest, Nimrod, About Place, and River Teeth. She creates alone and with her music-text duo Thick In The Throat Honey. She works in the field of renewable energy and lives with her experimental jazz musician husband, daughter, and vocal cat in the Pacific Northwest.