Clairette Durand-Gasselin (@clairettedg) is a bilingual poet and visual artist. She lived in the US from 2014 to 2022, and now resides in Montreuil, France. She has been the Artistic Director of Mad Gleam Press, and is now a Blog Editor and the Secretary of Paris Lit Up. She’s also a French teacher for anglophones, and currently studies Literary Translation through a Masters at Université Paris Cité. She writes in both French and English, and initiates dialogues between her literary and visual practices, as a means to study the potentials of visual poetry. Her work explores memory, rituals, and resonance with places. Publications of her work include A Shape Produced by a Curve (Great Weather For Media), the Revue Miroir, the podcast Mange tes Mots and the website Synapse International.