Clare Weze

Agent: Abi Fellows

​Clare’s debut The Lightning Catcher (Bloomsbury, 2021) was nominated for the 2022 CILIP Carnegie medal. She is a co-author of Happy Here (Knights Of, 2021), an anthology featuring black British talent. Clare also writes for adults and her short fiction has been widely anthologised, winning a Northern Writers’ Award in 2016.

She grew up between London and Yorkshire, has British and Nigerian heritage, and a background in biological sciences.