Gretl Claggett grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi. The river has been an ongoing source of inspiration in her life and writing. Gretl holds an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in creative nonfiction from Goucher College. Her career includes work in acting and media production, and her travels have brought her to Cairo, the white villages of Andalucia, Paris, Dublin, and Cape Breton. Her poems have appeared in The Atlanta Review, BigCityLit, The Greensboro Review, Heliotrope, Lumina, New Millennium Writings, Mangrove, and Rattapallax. Gretl recently completed her first nonfiction book, Do This, Get That: A Corporate Memoir. One of its sections is entitled “Wind and Water.” Her contribution to Submerged is the poem “The Net,” an intense account of a death on the flooded Mississippi.
contributor, Submerged: Tales from the Basin