Clayre Benzadón is a queer (bi /pan) Sephardic (Mizrahi)-Askhenazi poet, educator (adjunct professor) and activist. Her chapbook, Liminal Zenith, was published by SurVision Books in 2019. Her manuscript, Moon as Salted Lemon was recently named an honorable mention for Miami Book Fair's 2025 Emerging Writer's Fellowship and was chosen as a winner for Driftwood Press's Editor's Pick Poetry Prize .

 

Her chapbook, “Liminal Zenith” was published by SurVision Books. She was awarded the 2019 Alfred Boas Poetry Prize for "Linguistic Rewilding".

 

Additionally, her work has been featured in places including Jet Fuel Review, Fairy Tale Review, Hobart, Libre, and other publications.