Claire Fuller (born 9 February 1967 in Oxfordshire) is an English author.
She won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize for her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days,[1] the BBC Opening Lines Short Story Competition in 2014,[2] and the Royal Academy & Pin Drop Short Story Award in 2016.
[3][4] Her second novel, Swimming Lessons, was shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society of Literature Encore Award.
Fuller, born and raised in Oxfordshire, studied sculpture at Winchester School of Art in the 1980s, working mainly in wood and stone, before embarking on a marketing career.
Stories and essays of hers have appeared in England's Sunday Express,[9] Litro,[10] HuffPost,[11] and The Telegraph.