Claire's upcoming picture book with Peachtree Books - Susan B., Mama and Me – features a real girl in California who meets Susan B. Anthony during the 1896 campaign for women's suffrage.

Claire is currently working on a play to celebrate the 2010 centennial of women winning the vote in Washington State. She loves her new teaching position at Hamline University's MFA program – Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Claire's books transport readers to the North Country so you can ruffle the thick fur of a sled dog or spend a day with classmates in an outpost school. Put yourself in the cleats of a teenage baseball player when he discovers a secret about his mom and her connection to the Vietnam War in the novel Free Radical.

Or, try on the sandals of daring women who inhabit the desert lands that are home to the foremothers and forefathers of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in Daughters of the Desert .

Claire is a member of StoryForce.net, a group of writers building a community to celebrate books for young people and exploring how to help create a vibrant future through reading and writing. Visit the StoryForce.net blog and their MySpace pages to share your ideas, experiences and your love for books. They have interviews, curriculum aids, book reviews, perspectives on the writer’s life, author craft, photographs and more.