Claire Blatchford
Claire Blatchford (born 1944 in Washington D.C.) is an author. She became deaf at the age of six due to mumps. She graduated in 1966 from Bennington College. and earned a master's degree from Adelphi University in the Waldorf School teacher training program and in Deaf education from Teachers College, Columbia University. She is married and has two daughters. She continued working for several years as a teacher of deaf children. Claire Blatchford is an author of spiritual books and Deaf literature, including books and poetry. Selected works

Spiritual books and deaf literature 
 All Alone (1984)
 Turning: Words Heard from Within (1994, 2001)
 Many Ways of Hearing: 94 Multitasked Lessons in Listening (1997)
 Friend of My Heart: Meeting Christ in Everyday Life (1999)
 Becoming: A Call to Love (2004)
 Experiences with the Dying and the Dead: Waking to Our Connections with Those Who Have Died (2007)

Deaf poetry 
 The Deaf Girl: a memory
 The Collector
 Centering
 Acorn
 Mid-winter

References 

1944 births
Living people
Poets from Washington (state)
American women poets
Poets from Washington, D.C. Deaf poets
Adelphi University alumni
Bennington College alumni
Teachers College, Columbia University alumni
American deaf people
21st-century American women
American writers with disabilities