A public reading & conversation
An Evening withClaire Boyles
Fiction, conversation, and community with the acclaimed Colorado author of Site Fidelity and Appraisals.
The evening
A celebration of literature and the writing life.
Join us as Claire reads from her work and discusses the creative process behind her fiction. Following the reading, audience members can take part in a Q&A, meet the author, and continue the conversation during an informal reception.
Light refreshments will be provided.
Copies of Appraisals will be available by donation for signing.
About the author
“Writing rooted in land, labor, and the complicated ties that bind communities.”
Claire Boyles (she/her) is a writer and former farmer. Her debut novel, Appraisals, is forthcoming in August 2026. A 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction, she is the author of Site Fidelity, which won the High Plains Book Award and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Award, the Colorado Book Award, and the Reading the West Award.
Her nonfiction has appeared in Sierra Magazine and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other journals, and she is a screenwriter with multiple credits on the Hallmark Channel. She splits her time between Loveland, Colorado, and Ames, Iowa, where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing and the Environment at Iowa State University.
You’re invited