About me
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My human form is, I’m too often told, rather young and sweet-looking: a pale-skinned girl anywhere between 15 and 25 years with Asian features and long hair just this side of the blonde/brown divide. About half the folks I’d fought screeched to a complete halt at the sight of her.
~ Excerpt from 'Monkey Around'
Claire Light
Claire Light is a Bay Area writer, cultural worker, and activist.
She has worked since 1997 in nonprofit administration, particularly in arts and social justice, has had a longtime association with Kearny Street Workshop (where she co-founded the annual emerging artist festival APAture), and was a cofounder of Hyphen magazine. Her activism has turned most recently to disability justice, and she is co-founder of the Disability Justice League-Bay Area. You can read her fiction in McSweeney’s, Hyphen, and The Encyclopedia Project, among others. A short collection of her stories, Slightly Behind and to the Left, was published by Aqueduct Press in 2009. Her fantasy novel Monkey Around, written under the pen name Jadie Jang, was published by Solaris in 2021. You can follow her on Twitter or see occasional badly shot photos on Instagram.