Claire Poole

I was born in Houston and graduated from Trinity University with a double major in journalism and Spanish. I spent my career at newspapers and magazines, in such diverse cities as Corpus Christi, New York City and Mexico City, before settling back in Houston.
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​The highlight was Forbes magazine, where I was a fact checker/reporter. It was an exciting time to be in financial journalism in NYC. I contributed to articles about the 1987 stock market crash, the world's billionaires and penny stock fraudsters. I became a staff writer and transferred to the Houston office, where I reported stories about companies and the people behind them in the southwest.

I always wanted to work in another country, so after Forbes  I edited the English-language version of El Financiero in Mexico City. Then I returned to Houston, where I wrote for and edited a startup magazine, Mexico Business.  I was a co-finalist for the Livingston Awards for Outstanding Young Journalists for a package we did on Mexico's media barons.
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​As a freelancer, I contributed articles to Latin Trade, Texas Monthly and Worth, among others. Later I joined another recent startup, The Deal, where I wrote about energy for 16 years. After that, I returned to Forbes as a senior contributor and then edited and wrote for The Texas Lawbook.

Along the way, I co-authored Art Cars: Revolutionary Movement and contributed poetry to literary journals. I am a member of Writers' League of Texas and have attended several writing workshops and conferences, including WLT, Writers in Paradise, Inprint, Murphy Writing and Wildacres. ​I have taken poetry classes with Cait Weiss Orcutt, Peter Murphy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sasha West and Victoria Chang, who taught me so much about the craft.