Award-winning author of Revelry, Vice President & Promotions Director for the Colorado Authors League, and a lifelong listener to the wild places — inner and outer — where the human spirit takes shape.
"I began writing as a way of listening to the world and to myself."
J. Claire writes to illuminate what often goes unspoken: the lived interplay of longing, belonging, and transformation.
Her work moves through wildness, devotion, grief, and desire, drawing on myth, memory, and the living world as sites of revelation. Her poems are both grounding and incandescent, offering moments of recognition, beauty, and return.
She is the award-winning author of Revelry and serves as Vice President and Promotions Director for the Colorado Authors League. Shaped by both coasts and rooted in the American West, her writing is informed by landscape, memory, and the enduring pull of place. Her work has appeared in Harness Magazine.
J. Claire began writing as a way of listening to the world and herself. A lifelong endurance athlete, avid traveler, and writer for Colorado Springs Lifestyle, she explores wild landscapes, inner and outer, where the human spirit takes shape. Her poems invite readers to slow, listen, and feel deeply.
J. Claire holds a master’s degree in public policy and law, and a bachelor’s in education and psychology — studies that continue to inform her reflections on human experience and connection.
A name born from her own return — to the body, to the land, and to the quiet rituals that ground her: a morning walk, bare feet on soil, breath counted slowly.
It’s a reminder that wildness isn’t something to chase, but something to remember. Her poems exist to help readers find their way back to it, one line at a time.
The Wild Notes is a monthly offering—part field journal, part reflection, part quiet invitation. Each month, I share poems, musings from the natural world, creative notes, and gentle updates from my life and work as the Poet of the Wild. It’s a place to slow down, listen closely, and remember our belonging to the living world. If you’re drawn to language shaped by earth, season, and spirit, I’d love to meet you there.
