About Clare is a writer across prose, poetry, and critical forms. Her work has been recognised in the Craft Flash Prose Prize, the Bridport Prize, the Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, and the Jim Hamilton AM Award, and supported by Varuna, and Express Media. Clare has mentored writers with the Ministry of Stories, Fellowship of Australian Writers, and The Smith Family. She completed a PhD in creative writing at RMIT in 2025. Since 2011 she has run Pieced Work, an ongoing literature project with an interest in makers and inventive collaborations. Textile Message, now in its fifth series, is her current project, an artists’ enquiry into significant clothes and other textile objects. She previously worked for 20 years as a copy-editor in commercial and academic publishing in Australia, the UK, and Germany, and published journalism across profiles, fashion, and the arts.