Clarice Short was born in Ellinwood, Kansas, and grew up in the Arkansas Ozarks, and later near Taos, New Mexico.
[10] Her work was published in the book Images and Impressions with fellow University of Utah professors and poets Ed Leuders and Brewster Ghiselin.
Thayne helped bring Short's second collection, The Owl on the Aerial, to posthumous publication, and wrote an introduction for it.
[12] In his review of The Owl and the Aerial, poet Jim Elledge says the poems have a mystic quality.
Roscoe L. Buckland of Western Washington University calls Clarice Short "a poet of the first rank."