Claire Lawrence, Ph.D.

Professor Lawrence has published fiction, non-fiction, poetry and literary criticism in a wide array of journals, including Tri-Quarterly, Terra Nova, Crab Orchard Review, Literary Mama and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment. Her research interests include microfiction, memoir, graphic novels, and environmental literature. She is a recipient of the 2018 TALE award for Outstanding Teaching at Bloomsburg University.

Teaching and Research Interests

Claire Lawrence has published fiction in Tri-Quarterly, descant, Terra Nova, The New England Writers Anthology and The Best of Writers at Work, poetry in The Connecticut Review, Western Humanities Review, Ekphrasis and Gulf Coast, personal essays in Crab Orchard, So to Speak, Puerto del Sol and Art Lies, and literary criticism in ISLE and a study of Edward Abbey’s work titled Coyote in the Maze. She also has an article on the iconography of the wilderness in Nature and its Discontents. Her fiction has been anthologized in Terrain and The New Earth Reader.

She is a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant to continue work on her memoir, the first chapter of which won the 2008 John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize.

Courses Taught

• ENGL152 - Literature and Society (Environmental Literature emphasis)
• ENGL204 - Introduction to Creative Writing
• ENGL300 - Fiction Workshop
• ENGL302 - Non-Fiction Workshop
• ENGL491 - Senior Seminar
• WRIT103 - Foundations in Composition