Claressinka Anderson is a Los Angeles–based poet and writer. Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Oxford Poetry, Best New Poets, Los Angeles Review of Books, Boulevard, Pleiades, Bear Review, Chiron Review, Autre Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), and elsewhere, as well as in the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020). Anderson is the winner of the 2022 Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize selected by Traci Brimhall. In 2024, she was a finalist for the Oxford Poetry Prize and received nominations for a 2025 Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net.

Anderson is the librettist for the opera Sentinel which is currently in development. Through her ongoing collaborations with artists, her work engages the interstitial spaces of contemporary art, literature, and music.

Born to a Czech mother and American father, Anderson was born and raised in London, England. She has worked as an art dealer, advisor and curator, and was the founder of the gallery and art salon, Marine Projects (2009-2017). She has served on the boards and committees of several arts-related institutions and organizations, including The Vincent Price Art Museum, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Venice Family Clinic, Arttable, and Sexy Beast for Planned Parenthood. 

Anderson holds an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College.