Clara Rose Thornton is pleased to announce her debut book, Motion Sickness: Poetry, Prose, and Sociopolitical Essays, publishing in November 2025 from Green Writers Press!
Clara Rose is a culture journalist, radio and television broadcaster, spoken word artist, literature workshop instructor, and event organizer. She has lived in New York City, Vermont, Oregon, and Quebec in North America; in Dublin, Paris, Croatia, and Germany in Europe; and recently repatriated to her native Chicago. She founded the company InkBlot Complex to incorporate writing, editing, and entertainment services under one umbrella. InkBlot Complex focuses on the arts and their intersection with social justice, social identity, history, and human geography.
A lively, erudite broadcaster, in Ireland Clara Rose appeared as a frequent film critic on "Arena," the national arts program from Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ); discussed film, race, and feminism on the likes of "The Ryan Tubridy Show" and "The History Show" on RTÉ Radio 1; and appeared regularly as a TV culture journalist on RTÉ 1's "Morning Edition." Print cultural criticism has appeared in the Irish Independent, the Irish Times, District Magazine, Artscope, and the Chicago classic, Stop Smiling: The Magazine for High-Minded Lowlifes. For four years she wrote “Southerly Exposure,” her weekly fine arts column in the Rutland Herald, Vermont's Pulitzer-Prize-winning daily. Clara Rose counts Meta, Harvard University, and Ancestry among brand journalism clients.
During her twenty-one-year writing and editing career, Clara Rose has been nominated for Best Human Interest Feature in the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest; acted as editor of the general interest trade book department at Publications International; helmed two national arts and entertainment magazines; taught poetry workshops in Asia, the United States, and Europe; and judged two Poetry Out Loud competitions [US]. She has been invited as a panelist or guest lecturer at multiple Irish literary festivals, University of Zagreb in Croatia, Keene State College in New Hampshire, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Soho House Chicago.
