Clara Oropeza

Clara Oropeza is a writer and academic. Her work explores identity and belonging. She is the author of A Remapping of Womanhood and Creativity: A Literary and Depth Psychological Perspective (2025), and Anais Nin: A Myth of Her Own (2019). Her work has appeared in “Minerva Rising;” “The Journal of Multimodal Rhetoric;” and Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief. Her essays on Modernism and Anaïs Nin have appeared in Impressions from Paris: Women Creatives in Interwar Years France (2024); and in Anais Nin in Context (forthcoming in the Fall 2026). Clara was born in Tucson, Arizona and lives in Santa Barbara, California. She is an English professor at Santa Barbara City College.