​Clare’s debut The Lightning Catcher (Bloomsbury, 2021) was nominated for the 2022 CILIP Carnegie medal. She is a co-author of Happy Here (Knights Of, 2021), an anthology featuring black British talent. The Storm Swimmer (Bloomsbury) was published in 2023. Clare also writes for adults and her short fiction has been widely anthologised, winning a Northern Writers’ Award in 2016.

She grew up between London and Yorkshire, has British and Nigerian heritage, and a background in biological sciences.