Claire Dwyer
Leadership Institute Advisory Board
Claire Dwyer works for the Avila Foundation as content editor of Spiritual Direction.com. She is a copywriter for Catholic organizations and the co-founder and content manager of Write These Words and the PraiseWriters Catholic Writing Membership Community, where she enjoys teaching and coaching Catholic writers to fulfill their God-given dreams of writing, publishing, and sharing their story and their message with the world.
The author of the best-selling book, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, she writes on the spiritual life for various websites and on her blog, EventheSparrow.com, and speaks and offers retreats to groups around the country.
Claire is a 1997 graduate of Franciscan University, has a Graduate Certification in Spiritual Theology from the Avila Institute, and is currently in the MA program at St. Vincent College’s Institute of Ministry Formation for Ecclesial Ministry/Spiritual Direction. She finds deep joy in giving spiritual direction to women.
Claire and her husband Delaney, also a Franciscan graduate, live in Phoenix with their six children.
