Clarinda Harriss

Clarinda Harriss is a professor emerita of Towson University’s English Department, which she chaired for a decade, and longtime director of BrickHouse Books, Inc., Maryland’s oldest literary press. Her most recent book is The White Rail, a collection of short stories; she is also the author of Air Travel, Mortmain, and Dirty Blue Voice. Several of her grandchildren have threatened to write poems about her. All have complained about “the look” she gets on her face when being photographed.

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Pushcart (Poetry) 2022*

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