Claire Sicherman is the author of Imprint: A Memoir of Trauma in the Third Generation. Her writing has been published in anthologies and journals including Awfully Hilarious: Period Pieces, Don’t Ask: What Families Hide, Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food, Grain Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Lost Balloon, Hippocampus and The Rumpus. Claire is a teacher, speaker, and mentor, supporting writers in bringing the stories they hold in their bodies out onto the page.

Claire is a graduate of the creative non-fiction program at The Humber School for Writers and earned her B.A. at UBC. She has certification in Narrative Therapy, The Healing Trauma Program , Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, Dr. Peter Levine’s Healing Trauma: Working with Somatic wounds, Grief & Loss Training, Trauma-Informed Yoga, Yin Yoga, and Journalism.