Clarinda's plays have been produced at several Equity theatres and published by Applause Theatre Books, The Coachella Review, and The Kenyon Review. Her first play, From My Grandmother’s Grandmother Unto Me, just received its thirtieth production. She received her MFA in Creative Writing for Performance at the University of CA-Riverside/Palm Desert. She divides her time between California and North Carolina. She is becoming increasingly sure that greed is the problem.