Claire Gruzelier

Claire Gruzelier was born and educated in Auckland, New Zealand and came to the United Kingdom to study for a post-graduate degree in Classics at Oxford. She met her husband there and, after she gained a teaching qualification in London, they lived for a number of years in Cambridge. Here she began her teaching career and also had two daughters.

After living in Birmingham for many years, the family moved to Bristol in 2018 and since then Claire has taught Classics at a secondary school in Bath.

She has published books and journal articles on Silver Latin Epic poetry and helps edit the Classics magazine 'Omnibus'. She has also loved writing stories ever since she was a little girl and has published three novels to date: 'The Puppet Theatre', 'Ballet Boy' and just recently, 'The Spanish Fan'.