Claire is author of four poetry collections, numerous essays and translations, and her research focuses on the poetics of space, architecture and writing, and psychoanalysis. She is Head of the AA Writing Centre. After undergraduate studies in English and Politics at The University of Western Australia (UWA), she graduated from UNSW Sydney. She holds a MA in Psychoanalysis and Medicine from Paris Diderot University (Paris 7) and Postgraduate Diploma in Psychoanalytic Infant Observation from the Tavistock. Claire has taught at Parsons School of Design, Sciences Po, the Royal College of Art, (RCA) and the Poetry Society. Her poetry has been widely published in Poetry Chicago, New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, New Statesman, Best Australian Poems amongst others and translated into Chinese and French.