Biography

Claire Trévien is an Anglo-Breton poet, writer and academic.

She is the editor of Sabotage Reviews, a website promoting independent presses.

With Odette Toilette, she is the co-organizer of Penning Perfumes, a creative collaboration between poets and perfumers, for which she edited an anthology of poems.

Her debut pamphlet, Low-Tide Lottery, is now out with Salt Publishing.

Her first full collection, The Shipwrecked House, will be published by Penned in the Margins in March 2013.

Her writing has been or will be published in a variety of literary magazines including Under The Radar, Poetry Salzburg Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Warwick Review, Nth Position, Epicentre, The Silk Road Review, Fuselit and on a cake with The Poetry Digest. Most recently, her poems featured in Best British Poetry 2012, and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam.

Outside of poetry, Claire Trévien completed a doctorate at the University of Warwick in 2012, on spectacle in prints of the French Revolution.

Here are links to interviews, here and here.