| Claire Mulligan | |
| Occupation: | novelist, short stories |
| Period: | 2000s-present |
| Nationality: | Canadian |
| Notableworks: | The Reckoning of Boston Jim |
Claire Mulligan is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, whose debut novel The Reckoning of Boston Jim was a longlisted nominee for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2007,[1] and a shortlisted finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2008.[2]
Her second novel, The Dark, was published in 2013.[3] She has also published short stories in The Antigonish Review, Grain, The Tulane Review and Canadian Author.
Originally from Kelowna, British Columbia,[4] she currently resides on Vancouver Island, where she teaches in the continuing education program at Camosun College and is pursuing a master's degree in screenwriting at the University of Victoria.