Claire is the author of My Year Without Matches, Escaping the City in Search of the Wild. She worked for many years as a campaigner for The Wilderness Society but is now a free-lance journalist, writing for The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald, while studying post-graduate psychology. Claire is passionate advocate for ‘rewilding’ our inner and outer landscapes and she facilitates nature based reconnection retreats and contemporary wilderness rites of passage. She currently lives in Newcastle.