Claire Feild is an English composition instructor. She has had numerous poems accepted for print publication in literary journals, such as The Carolina Quarterly; Birmingham Arts Journal; Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita; Folio; South Dakota Review; and most recently, in these print journals: Perceptions:Magazine of the Arts; Turbulence Magazine; Black Magnolias Literary Journal; Windmills (Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia); The Chaffey Review (Chaffey College, CA); The Eclectic Eel (Hull, England); Eye Contact (Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA); Polluto (U.K.); Spillway;Tulane Review; Chinaberries & Crows: An Anthology (Solomon and George Publishers); University of Colorado’s Palimpsest: A Creative Journal of the Humanities; (SUNY press: State University Press-Albany); The Path: A Literary Magazine; Dewpoint Literary Journal; Zymbol; Twisted Endings; Pinyon Review; Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine; Calidum Literary Magazine; and Welter.
Her first poetry book, Mississippi Delta Women in Prism, is set in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Excerpts of her memoir, A Delta Vigil, have been published in Boston’s FullCircle: A Journal of Poetry and Prose. Her second collection of poetry titled Southern Aunts: The 1950s has just been published (summer 2013).