Claire Fuller (1967, Oxfordshire, England) is an acclaimed author of both novels and short fiction. She studied sculpture at the Winchester School of Art, earned a master's degree in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester, and, after many years as co-director of a marketing agency, began her writing career.

Claire Fuller (1967, Oxfordshire, England) studied sculpture at the Winchester School of Art, earned a master's degree in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester, and began her writing career at the age of forty. Her novels have been very well received and have been translated into more than twenty languages: Our Days Will Be Endless, which we are now publishing with Impedimenta, won the Desmond Elliott Award for Best Debut Novel in 2015; Swimming Lessons (2017) won the Livre de Poche Prize in France; Bitter Oranges (2018) was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, and Unstable Ground (2021; Impedimenta, 2023) won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in several literary magazines: “Baker, Emily and Me” won the 2014 BBC Opening Lines competition, and “A Quiet Tidy Man” won the Royal Academy Award for Short Stories. The Memory of Animals (2023; Impedimenta, 2024) is her most recent novel. Claire Fuller currently lives in Winchester.