Claire Potter grew up in Perth and moved to Sydney where she completed an Honors degree in English Literature, before being awarded a French Embassy Scholarship to complete a Masters in Paris. In 2006 she was awarded an Australian Young Poet Fellowship from the Poet’s Union and the Australian Council for the Arts. Her first chapbook, In front of a comma, was published and launched at the 2006 Sydney Poetry Festival. In 2007, her second chapbook of poetry, N’ombre, was published by Vagabond Press.