J. Claire, known as the Poet of the Wild, 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 Poetry Editor for WayWords, as well 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.