Claire Boyles

Biography

Claire Boyles is the author of Site Fidelity (Norton, 2021), a collection of short stories from which “Alto Cumulus Standing Lenticulars” is excerpted. Her writing has appeared in VQR, the Kenyon Review, Boulevard, and elsewhere. She lives and writes in Colorado.

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FICTION / Summer 2021

Alto Cumulus Standing Lenticulars

By Claire Boyles ,  Illustration by Dani Choi

Ruth knew she was pregnant, but they’d driven the hundred miles from Gabbs to Tonopah anyway, for confirmation, she guessed, or for the change of scenery—though everywhere she looked there was desert and mountains, more desert, more...
ESSAYS / Summer 2019

Riding Ditch

By Claire Boyles ,  Photography by Alex S. MacLean

At Home in the Water Crisis

Photograph by Alex S. Maclean