Claire  

Davis

Degree:   Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing

Office Location:   Spalding Hall 112

Office Hours:   Monday 9:00-10:15,  1:00-2:45 and by appointment

Phone:   (208) 792-2050

Email:   cdavis@lcsc.edu 

Areas of Specialization and Interest:   Creative writing, fiction, nonfiction and poetry.  Contemporary American Literature

Favorite Authors:     
(Novels and Nonfiction)  Faulkner, Cormac McCarthy, David Long, Flannery O'Connor, Kim Barnes, D.H. Lawrence, Alice Munro, Tobias Wolf, Michael Cunningham, Charles Baxter, William Kittredge, James Galvin, Jose Saramago, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William H. Gass, Annie Proulx, and on and on and on. 

(Poetry)  Robert Wrigley, Pattiann Rogers, Robert Pinsky, Billy Collins, Dorianne Laux, Henry Taylor, Louise Gluck, Philip Levine, Richard Hugo, Mary Oliver, James Dickey (early works), just for a start...
Hobbies:  Well, I spend a heck of a lot of time writing.  I'm a novelist and currently working on my second novel.  I also write short stories.  I've been working on a book of nonfiction essays as well, and once in a rare while, I'll go back to writing poetry.  But when I'm not doing that, I'm either training my young horse, Scout, or he's training me.  We're working on dressage, cross country and stadium jumping.  He's a Connemara-Arab cross, so he's incredibly athletic and at six, he has all the stamina I used to have.

If I'm not with my horse, I'm probably out playing with the dogs.  I have a 90 lb. boxer named Mr. Boo, and a 15 lb. Border Terrier named Truman (as in fightin' Harry Truman).  They're both sweet animals and keep me pretty well occupied.  I have a canary, Cicero, which might just be the perfect pet.  You clean his cage, keep him fed and watered and he will sing your praises forever.

My Connemara Arab cross, Scout,
at a Northwest Equestrian three-day event,
October 2003

Other than that, I'm fond of doing the visual arts as well--painting, sculpting, drawing.  I've always been involved in music.  I play piano reasonably well, banjo far less well (I'm just learning it) and recently picked up a small half-sized accordion, for which my neighbors will never forgive me.

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