Claire Wahmanholm

Claire Wahmanholm is an American poet.

Wahmanholm received a BA from University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MFA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and a PhD from the University of Utah. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Her poems have appeared in Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, The Cincinnati Review, The Hopkins Review, Poetry Daily, and TriQuarterly. Her debut poetry collection Wilder (Milkweed Editions, 2018) won the 2018 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and the 2018 Society of Midland Authors Award, and was a finalist for the 2019 Minnesota Book Award. Her second book was Redmouth (Tinderbox Editions, 2019). Her most recent book, Meltwater (Milkweed Editions, 2023), was a finalist for the 2024 Minnesota Book Award and the 2024 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a 2025 National Book Foundation Science + Literature selection. Her poem "Glacier" was the winner of the 2022 Montreal International Poetry Prize. She was a 2021 McKnight Artist Fellow.