People Background
Claire Boyles MA, MFA

Claire Boyles MA, MFA

Nature Writing Concentration Faculty

Contact Information

cboyles@western.edu
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Functional Area

Nature Writing – Creative Writing

Education

MFA, Colorado State University, Creative Writing, 2018
MA, Colorado State University, Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language, 2001
BA, Colorado State University, Political Science, 1997

Biography

Claire Boyles (she/her) is a writer and former farmer who lives in Colorado. A 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction, she is the author of Site Fidelity, which won the High Plains Book Award for short story collections and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the Reading the West Award. She has received support from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Foundation, the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers Workshop, and the Community of Writers. She has been a Peter Taylor Fellow for the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop.