Claire Ewbank studied French and German at Durham University. Writer, drawer and violinist, creativity is a common thread in her life as she travels and finds community in different places. She has started combining her poetry with visual art and her videos can be found on Youtube under 'Claire Ewbank, Spoken Word'. Claire won first prize at the Heidelberg University Art Slam in 2014. She was commended in the Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Competition (2009, 2010). She was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Competition in 2008.
She now lives in Hamburg, Germany, working as youth leader with teenagers from the Middle East and Europe. Claire has been part of three different art exhibitions in Hamburg over the last two years, exhibiting poetry and paintings looking into the subject of refugees, nationality and community.