Claire Corbett was born in Canada and has worked in film and public health. She has had essays and stories broadcast on Radio National and published in a range of publications, including Rolling Stone, Cinema Papers, Picador New Writing and The Sydney Morning Herald. She was a finalist in The Independent Young Writer of the Year awards 1991, completed the MA Writing at UTS in 1997 and a Varuna Mentorship in 2000. When We Have Wings is her first novel. Claire currently lives with her husband, son and daughter in the Blue Mountains.
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'Claire Corbett's debut novel was inspired by visits to the Louvre Museum, the Rocky Mountains and dreams of flying' -
read a piece on When We Have Wings and Claire Corbett in the Herald Sun