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Claire Aman grew up in Melbourne, but has lived most of her life in rural Australia, in and around Grafton in New South Wales. Her short stories have been published in a number of collections and several have won prizes, including the Wet Ink/CAL Prize and the Hal Porter Prize.
`Aman's ideas are original and her imagination fertile. Her writing is generally attractive and strong, with a sure touch when it comes to telling detail...Aman is capable of some showstopper phrases, such as the naked and mortified brightness of the dead possum's eyes in Sustenance , and she has a nice line in dry humour...Peopled with memorable and often touching characters, and redolent of Australia, Bird Country is a thoroughly enjoyable and varied reading experience, and Aman is a writer to watch.' * NZ Listener * `Aman writes: The poet sees the hugeness of things. She will distil and distil until she has a single shining drop. This is also true of Bird Country, which packs huge themes-poverty, friendship, disability, abuse, death, family, addiction-into sixteen excellent short stories.' * New Zealand Herald * `Aman's tales are burnished with a quiet intensity...While there's a precision to the placing of each word that speaks of a controlling rigour, the actual content of these 16 stories reveals a certain freewheeling dramatic flair...Here is grief and beauty in symphony.' * Australian * `A suite of quietly beautiful short stories based in and around Grafton...A loving snapshot of a naturally beautiful but slightly melancholy rural centre. They are stories of fierce family loyalties, old age, poverty and small dignities, the kind that country towns seem to embody.' * Books+Publishing *
