I love writing and traveling, and am especially happy when I can combine both. Here I am with my husband, Kirk, in Dublin, Ireland doing research for a screenplay.

Claire is a multihyphenate who works as a writer, story editor and producer.

Her first novel, At Last Count, was released by Invisible Publishing in June, 2022, and is available at bookstores around the world. At Last Count was named a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2022, a summer reads pick by the Toronto Star, a CanLit book club pick by Zoomer magazine, an Editors’ Pick by 49th Shelf, and has been featured on CBC’s Ontario Morning, Global TV, the Kingston-Whig Standard, Amherst Island Radio, Mix 97, and elsewhere.  Claire has presented the book at the Manitoulin NorthWords Festival and at the Vancouver Writers Fest alongside authors Elif Batuman and Meira Cook. An audiobook is available.

Claire has written several movies for TV, including Love at Look Lodge (Hallmark), Cupids on Beacon Street (City TV) and the story for Ice Wine Christmas (Lifetime).

Claire was an Executive Producer and a writer for the new comedy ZARQA on CBC Gem, and Supervising Producer for Nickelodeon’s Make It Pop, writing many of the show’s episodes. Claire’s other TV writing credits include Little Mosque on the Prairie, Degrassi: The Next Generation for which Claire earned The Alliance for Children and Television Award for Excellence, The Smart Woman Survival Guide for W and Cosmo TV, and Wingin’ It, earning Claire a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Writing in a Children’s/Youth Program.

Claire has received Canada Media Fund funding to develop At Last Count into a one-hour TV drama.

She is a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre, and is married to hyphenate knitter-actor-writer Kirk Dunn, also known as The Knitting Pilgrim. They have two children. Dunn is represented by Meridian Artists for film and TV, and Transatlantic Literary Agency for books.