Claire Matthews (she/her, settler) is a bi writer and editor who lives on the unceded, traditional territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Tsleil-Waututh nations.

With a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, she studied poetry and specialized in creative non-fiction. She received her bachelor of arts from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, where she co-founded their first literary and arts magazine, pulp mag.

Her work has appeared in Coast Mountain Culture, Arc Poetry, Plenitude, Joyland, Loose Lips Magazine, Grain, and CV2, among others. Her poetry was long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize, short-listed for the 2018 and 2019 Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, and her fiction won second place in the Vancouver Writers Fest Short Story Competition. Her research and writing has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Along with writing, Claire enjoys freelance editing and copyediting. She has edited manuscripts, theses, prose, and poetry and was a fiction mentor for Booming Ground. She has copyedited websites, two music books, and several essays in The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Healthcare, edited by Zena Sharman. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2016.

Claire has been a guest poetry and creative non-fiction lecturer in high schools and at UBC.