Claire Boyles (she/her) is a writer, mom, and former farmer who lives and writes in Colorado. Her debut novel, Appraisals, is forthcoming in August of 2026. A 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction, she is the author of Site Fidelity, which won the 2022 High Plains Book Award for Short Stories. Site Fidelity was also longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award and the Reading the West Award and was a finalist for both the Colorado Book Award and the WILLA Literary Award in Multiform Fiction. Her writing has appeared in VQR, Kenyon Review, Boulevard, and Masters Review, among others. She was a Peter Taylor Fellow for the Kenyon Review Writing Workshops and has received support from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation, the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Workshop, the Crested Butte Center for the Arts, and the Prairie Seas Project. She teaches in Eastern Oregon University’s low-residency MFA in Creative and Environmental Writing.

She is fascinated by the sex lives of Oklahoma Brown tarantulas and the ecologies of shortgrass prairies, leads a food and farming community book club for a farmland preservation nonprofit, and is a long-distance trail runner despite her fears of rattlesnakes and mountain lions. She is also a screenwriter with multiple credits on Hallmark Christmas movies.