About Clarise Foster Clarise Foster spent ten years living in the South Pacific. Her family moved to Guam when she was twelve, and she has since lived in Hawaii, Seattle, Vanvoucer, and, for the past eleven years, Winnipeg. The Flame Tree is Clarise’s first book. Books by Clarise Foster The Way Boys Sometimes Are and Other Poems by (author) Clarise Foster The Flame Tree by (author) Clarise Foster