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Claire Boyles

Claire Boyles

Claire Boyles is an MFA candidate at Colorado State University. Her work has appeared in the Masters Review and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and she is the recipient of a scholarship from Bread Loaf Orion. She raises kids and teaches middle school in Loveland, Colorado.

Fiction

Mar/Apr 2018

Chickens, 2019

By Claire Boyles

Just before Smith, that turncoat of an Agricultural Extension agent, showed up on my farm with the rest of them, Jerry and I stuffed my chickens into wax-covered produce boxes […]

Claire Boyles

Claire Boyles is an MFA candidate at Colorado State University. Her work has appeared in the Masters Review and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and she is the recipient of a scholarship […]