Clare Pollard FRSL (born 1978, England) is a British writer (poet, novelist and playwright), literary translator and (prize jury) critic.
[2] She was educated at Turton School in Bromley Cross and read English at Cambridge University.
[11] In that same year, she published her debut novel, Delphi, with Fig Tree in the UK, with Avid Reader in the USA, and Aufbau Verlag in Germany.
[12] The novel's plot centres on social satire concerning oracles, tarot cards and London family life during the 2020 Covid lockdown, and the corresponding shift of everyday life towards the internet; the protagonist of the novel is a struggling classics professor, wife and mother facing a failing marriage, attempting to care for her ten-year-old son whilst holding her family together "against all odds".
[13] Pollard's debut children's book, The Untameables, a radical retelling of Arthurian myth and legend, was published in 2024 by the Emma Press.