Claire Trévien was born in Brittany. Her pamphlet Low-Tide Lottery was published in 2011. She is the editor of Sabotage Reviews and the co-organiser of Penning Perfumes, a creative collaboration between poets and perfumers. Her first collection, The Shipwrecked House (Penned in the Margins, 2013), was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and subsequently transformed for the stage.