Claressinka Anderson is a Los Angeles-based poet and writer. She has worked as an art dealer, adviser and curator, and was the founder of the gallery and art salon Marine Projects (2009-2017). Some of her writing can be found at Autre Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), The Los Angeles Press, Artillery Magazine and The Chiron Review. Her poetry is included in the anthology Choice Words: Writers on Abortion (Haymarket Books, 2020). Through her ongoing collaborations with artists, her work engages the interstitial spaces of contemporary art and literature.

Born and raised in London, England, Anderson has lived in New Zealand, Switzerland and New York. She has served on the boards and committees of several arts-related institutions and organizations, including The Vincent Price Art Museum, The Santa Monica Museum of Art, The Venice Family Clinic, Arttable and Sexy Beast for Planned Parenthood. 

Anderson graduated with honors from the University of the Arts London, and is currently an MFA candidate in writing and literature at the Bennington Writing Seminars.