In 2021, her feminist revisionist myth poem “Penelope, the truth” (Corvid Queen, April 2020) earned a Rhysling nomination. That same year, her scifi poems, “Docking on Phobos” and “Fireflies in Retrograde”—both exploring the fears of a young mother raising children on an alien planet—received awards in the SFPA's 2021 Speculative Poetry Contest.
Most recently, her poems "Gaia forgets her shopping list" and "A Priestess of Bast Reflects on a Past Life" were finalists in the 2026 Rhysling Awards cycle, with the latter earning an honorable mention in the long form category.
Previously, she also received awards in the SFPA's Speculative Poetry Contest in 2024 and 2025 for her poems "Stasis in Hyperdrive", a meditation on transience and space travel, and "terraforming", an exploration of the future of Mars and humanity's tendency to repeat the mistakes of the past.
Clarabelle’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in various other journals and anthologies, including How We Made the Moon Cry, Arcane Magick, Atropos Magazine, Dwarf Stars, The Acropolis Journal, Corvid Queen, SpecPoVerse, Circe’s Cauldron, Eye to the Telescope, Eternal Haunted Summer, The Poetry Lighthouse, and elsewhere.
In addition to the corpus of myth, she considers Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, and Alan Moore to be among some of her biggest influences. She also reads a lot of science news, clifi, pulp scifi, and more, and enjoys watching horror movies (the surrealer and weirder the better).
Currently, she is working on developing "Docking on Phobos" into a full-length poetry collection by the same name. In the meantime, you can keep up with her latest adventures on Instagram, and you are always welcome to reach out to her at the email address below. She is often distracted by fairy circles and shiny things, but she aims to respond quickly!