Bio
 Claire
Robson offers writing workshops to universities, schools, community
centers and private students. She coaches private
clients to help them improve specific manuscripts as well as
overall writing skills. She writes and edits fiction,
non-fiction and promotional materials.
Claire taught English in British high schools
for sixteen years, and was an assistant principal for seven.
In 1989 she relocated to the United States, where she established
a reputation as an author of fiction and nonfiction and published
in numerous journals, newspapers and anthologies, most notably The
North American Review. Her memoir, Love
in Good Time, was published by Michigan State University Press
in fall 2003, and received glowing reviews from Publishers’ Weekly and Library
Journal. In 2004, Claire relocated to Canada, where
she continues to write and to run Creative Solutions, an
umbrella organization offering both editorial and educational
services.
Claire has worked with a wide variety of writers. She
has given workshops and master classes at universities, colleges,
schools and libraries in Massachusetts, North Dakota, New Hampshire
and Michigan, as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom. She
has run writers’ retreats and facilitated writers’ groups
for the last ten years. She has worked with writers of
all ages and abilities, for the Arts Alliance of Northern New
Hampshire, for the Connecticut Poetry Festival, for the New
Hampshire Humanities Council and for the New Hampshire Writers
Project. She has been keynote speaker for the National
Writing Project, and a panelist at AWP. New Voices,
the veteran reading series Claire founded fifteen years ago,
is still one of the most popular open mics in Boston. In
2003, Claire traveled 4000 miles down the East Coast to Atlanta
to give readings and workshops at forty-six venues, including
bookstores, churches, senior centers, libraries and colleges.
Currently, Claire is editing a collection of short fiction
for use in schools and colleges, a project which is under contract
with Persea Books, an independent commercial literary press. She
is also working on a third book, Notes from the Road – How
to Plan a Successful Book Tour.
Claire is a member of the Author’s Guild and of the Editors’ Association
of Canada.
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