Clara MacGauffin

A lifelong devotee of archives and old maps, Clara spends as much time poring over primary sources as she does crafting prose. She seeks out the small, overlooked details—a half-erased diary entry, an ambiguous footnote—then shapes them into narratives that spotlight ordinary people surviving extraordinary circumstances. Themes of endurance, moral ambiguity, and quiet courage thread through all her work, inviting readers to ask how much of the past still pulses beneath the present.

When she isn’t writing, Clara can usually be found wandering museum back corridors, annotating out-of-print travel guides, or nursing a strong coffee while planning her next research trip. She believes every era has its ghosts—and that fiction is one of the surest ways to hear them speak.