Claressinka Anderson is a Los Angeles–based poet, writer, editor, and librettist. Winner of the Michelle Boisseau Poetry Prize, a finalist for the Oxford Poetry Prize and Leonard Cohen Poetry Prize, her poems and essays have appeared in publications including Best New Poets, Poetry London, Oxford Poetry, Los Angeles Review of Books, North American Review, ONLY POEMS, Boulevard, Pleiades, and in the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion. The Summer 2026 Bennington Writing Seminars Alumni Fellow in Poetry, Anderson is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. She serves as co-editor-in-chief at Bear Review.

Anderson has worked as an art dealer, advisor and curator, and was the founder of the gallery and art salon, Marine Projects (2009-2017). She is the librettist for Songs of the Scorpion and Sentinel. Through her ongoing collaborations with artists, her work engages the interstitial spaces of contemporary art, literature, and music.

Anderson’s curatorial work has been reviewed in publications including Art Forum, The Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Elle, and Modern Painters. 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.

Born to Czech and American parents, Anderson was raised in London, England. Her studies have spanned poetry, art history, photography, and curatorial practice. Anderson received her education from Barnard College and University of the Arts London (BA), with graduate studies at Sotheby’s Institute of Art and an MFA in writing and literature from Bennington College.