Claire Boyles had to give up the family farm, but she has a growing career as an author -- and just won a Whiting Award.
— was a triumph for the Loveland-based teacher, who'd been forced to pack up her family farm in the tiny town of Gill in 2013.
And now she has more cause to celebrate her pursuit of writing as a career: She's one of the ten winners of this year's“The Whiting Foundation is famously secretive about the awards,” says Boyles of the organization that has decided the winners for the past 37 years. “There is a group of anonymous nominators and a group of anonymous judges. As a writer, you don’t know that you are being considered.
“address some of the most urgent issues of our time: climate change, land possession, advances that seem to leave some behind.” Those stories are steeped in the humanity, geography and ecology of the Rocky Mountain West, not to mention the economic hardships that have affected Colorado agriculture for centuries.
But Boyles's characters and themes are universal. “I am interested in the connections between humans and land, what land conservation requires in an age of increasing wealth inequality, and what happens when the people who live closest to the land, who know best how to steward it, are severed from it — the ways in which the commodification of land and water that resulted from the original land theft from Indigenous people still influence and limit agriculture today,” she explains.
Like most of us, Boyles — who teaches in Eastern Oregon University’s MFA program for Creative and Environmental Writing while remaining a Loveland resident — has contended with the draining effects of COVID over the past two years. But now, with a sizable prize under her belt and the national literary spotlight trained on her, she has even more means and motive to push on. “For a variety of reasons, I lost a bit of creative momentum during the pandemic,” she says.
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