Claire Battershill is a Canadian fiction writer and literary scholar.

[1] On September 15, 2017, Battershill was honoured by receiving a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Talent Award from Governor General David Johnston.

[2] Her collection of short stories, Circus, was published by McClelland and Stewart in 2014.

The title story won the CBC Literary Award for Short Fiction.

[6] She was born in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and is the sister of novelist Andrew Battershill.