Claire Aimée Gulliver is a writer based in Atlantic Canada. As a little girl, she fell in love with Austen through the 1995 film adaptation of Sense & Sensibility. Born in Saskatchewan and raised outside Minneapolis, she is a graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, where she studied literature, film, and photography. She studied performance art at Slade School of Fine Art in London, and played violin for over ten years. She is an intersectional feminist passionate about literature, art, research, music and food. She is the proud mama of two babies and two ginger cats.