Claire Garden

Claire Garden was born and raised in Iowa. In high school and college she wrote poetry and essays. She taught at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, and published some of her work. In 1980, she wrote a one-act play for her community theatre group.

Garden became interested in living in an intentional community. In 1990, she co-founded an eco-village in Kansas, and three years later she joined large rural commune in the Ozarks, where she met and married a man called Ant. In 1995 she and her husband helped cofound Terra Nova, a small intentional community called Terra Nova in Columbia, Missouri.

As a young mother, Garden wrote children's stories. In 2000, she began to write for young adults. She continues to live and write in Terra Nova, Missouri.