About me
Claire Boyles is a writer and former farmer whose work captures the rugged landscapes and resilient people of the American West. A 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction, she is the author of Site Fidelity, winner of the High Plains Book Award and longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the Reading the West Award. Her nonfiction has appeared in Sierra Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals, and her screenwriting credits include multiple Hallmark Channel films. Boyles teaches in low-residency MFA programs at Eastern Oregon University and Western Colorado University. Her debut novel, Appraisals—developed during her 2023 Mountain Words Writer Residency—is forthcoming in 2026.
