Claire Potter
Claire Potter was born in Perth and educated at the Universities of Western Australia, New South Wales and Paris where, under the auspices of a French Embassy Scholarship, she wrote her Masters thesis on the setting in psychoanalysis and tragedy. In 2006, she received an Australian Young Poet's Fellowship and was mentored by Kevin Hart. She spent five years teaching and studying in Paris and now lives in London. Swallow is her first full-length collection.