Clare Jones is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Kolaj Institute, the Fulbright Program, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She received the Keats-Shelley Prize for her essay "Bat, Bat, Come Under My Hat." She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a Master of Philosophy in Eighteenth Century and Romantic Studies from Queens' College, Cambridge, and a Graduate Certificate in Book Arts from the University of Iowa Center for the Book.