Clare Jones is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Program, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a graduate of Carleton College, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She received the Keats-Shelley Prize for her essay "Bat, Bat,Come Under My Hat." She holds the degree of Master of Philosophy in Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies from Queens' College, Cambridge.