4 Questions for Claire Dederer, Author

What is your passion?
Trying to write something that is true. Also, cheese. And I’m pretty partial to my husband and kids.

Where are you from?
I’m a proud fourth-generation native Seattleite.

What was your favorite job?
Writing my book, Poser: My Life in Twenty-three Yoga Poses. I loved having the chance to write about motherhood and daughterhood and wifehood. But I did have a cool job as a forklift operator when I was a teenager. Though now that I look back on it, what was my boss thinking? Who does that? Who takes a hormone-crazed teenage girl and says, here, drive this forklift.


Tell us something no one knows about you:
I butter my graham crackers.