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Claire Baylis is a Rotorua writer who uses the power of stories to interrogate legal issues and the justice system.
Her award-winning novel Dice (Allen & Unwin 2023) is a literary courtroom drama told from the perspective of the jurors. It was informed by her research examining real jurors’ experiences in sexual violence trials and written as part of her PhD from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Claire is currently co-writing a TV screenplay of Dice for Tasman Ray Productions with initial development funding from NZ on Air.
She has recently completed her second novel manuscript, Omission, with the assistance of a Creative NZ Grant. It explores how culpable we are for the things we fail to do.
Claire was a law academic for 12 years (Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University Wellington), an interviewer/researcher on a Trans-Tasman Jury Study and is currently a member of the Judgment Writing Faculty for Te Kura Kaiwhakawā/Institute of Judicial Studies.
Her fiction has been published in Landfall, Sport, Turbine/Kapohau and Takahē and read on RNZ, while her legal writing is available in law journals and texts.
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