About

Claire Boswell is a writer, editor, teacher and literary and arts critic living in Richmond, VA. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Virginia Commonwealth University, and has taught in the English departments at Virginia State University, Virginia Union University and Randolph-Macon College.​ 

 

Her fiction and creative nonfiction can be seen in Sledgehammer, The RS 500 and elsewhere. She is currently working on her debut novel, Sheila, developed with the support of Catapult’s Online Novel Generator course, led by Ingrid Rojas Contreras. The first chapters of her novel-in-progress received an honorable mention in the 2021 CRAFT First Chapter's Contest, judged by Maisie Cochran of Tin House. 

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She is a former member of the Richmond Theatre Critics Circle, where she served as the Director of the Artsies Mentorship Program. Claire's reviews and other arts-related journalism can be seen in Style Weekly and The Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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Most recently, Claire has taken on a position as an editor and reviewer for Femspec, a scholarly journal of interdisciplinary works relating to feminism, folklore, and speculative fiction. 

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She lives in Richmond with her partner, Brian, and their pets, Bonnie, a fluffy corgi, and Scully, a very serious cat. 

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