Claire Loach is the daughter of a retired nurse/librarian, and a piano playing engineer. She's lived in Toronto for fifty-eight years. She is a Registered Nurse at an adult oncology clinic. Prior to that, she worked for sixteen years at The Hospital for Sick Children in the Haematology/Oncology Clinic. She has recently published a wonderful children's book called Dereekio's Big Adventure which she wrote twenty-nine years ago with her six year old patient receiving chemotherapy at the time. He is now thirty-five years old, and they reconnected and thankfully decided to share their wonderful and inspiring story. Claire is also a skilled pianist and songwriter, which adds another dimension to her stories. Claire states that though she never had children of her own, she is so thankful to have spent so much time with her nephews and niece and godsons when they were growing up, and continues to be inspired by them everyday.