Claire Jimenez

Claire Jiménez is a Puerto Rican writer and assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, where she is a McCausland Faculty Fellow. She holds an MFA from Vanderbilt University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her books include the story collection Staten Island Stories (2019) and the novel What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (2023), which won the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her essays have appeared in Afro-Hispanic Review and The Rumpus, and she co-founded the Puerto Rican Literature Project in 2019. Raising Mothers interviewed her about Puerto Rican motherhood, the topic of a 2023 conversation with Amaris Castillo.