Education
MFA, Colorado State University, Creative Writing, 2018
M.A., Colorado State University, Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language, 2001
B.A., Colorado State University, Political Science, 1997
M.A., Colorado State University, Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language, 2001
B.A., Colorado State University, Political Science, 1997
Academic Programs
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.
