Claire McQuerry

Claire McQuerry is an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Bradley University's College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, located in Bradley Hall 363. She holds a PhD in English/Creative Writing from the University of Missouri (where she received a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry), an MFA in Poetry from Arizona State University, and a BA in English and French from Gonzaga University.

Her research focuses on poetry composition, literary analysis, and cultural studies, with specific expertise in contemporary American literature, creative nonfiction, and indigenous literary traditions. She maintains active scholarly engagement through editorial roles at prominent literary journals.

Dr. McQuerry has received significant recognition including:

• Lacemakers (2012) winning the Crab Orchard First Book Prize
• Washington State Book Award Finalist designation
• Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Poetry
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenburg Prize
• 2010 Best American Essays Notable Essay honor

She has held editorial positions including Contests Editor at The Missouri Review and International Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review, demonstrating leadership in literary scholarship dissemination.