There, she studied English composition at Truman State University, and played in her band, Claire Bowman and the Bathtub Boys. In recent years, she has served as the associate poetry editor for Bat City Review and taught an afterschool poetry workshop at the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin. She is currently an MFA candidate at the Michener Center for Writers. Her poems have previously been published, or are forthcoming in: The Chariton Review, Switchback, One Throne Magazine, Four Ties Lit Review, Smoking Glue Gun, and PANK.