Claudia Talbot is an Australian-born actress and writer, currently based in Paris, who has been steadily creating from a young age. Her debut poetry collection, City Gothic, was published September of 2023 by British indie publisher Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing, and was praised by Emily Perkovich, editor-in-chief of Querencia Press, as “a collection that is all teeth…possessed by a distinct polarity – a self-examination often mirroring a commentary on the outside world.” Her writing is heavily informed by gothic literature, and confessional poetry of the late 50s and early 1960s. She has performed on both sides of the equator, having debuted as a guest speaker at Wild Reading Spoken Word in Brisbane’s West End at the age of 17. While her work as an actress, which is steadily expanding to include both theatre and cinema, can be found under her birth name, her poetry can be found under the name ‘Giselle Linder’, a character onto which she chooses to project her most intimate dreams, deaths and desires.