Clea Roberts' work has been translated and published internationally and has been nominated for the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award, the ReLit Award and a National Magazine Award. She has received fellowships from the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Vermont Studio Centre and is a five-time recipient of the Yukon Advanced Artist Award.
Currently, Clea facilitates poetry and journaling workshops through Hospice Yukon. She also has experience teaching poetry to school-age children through community centres and in the classroom, and worked as a teaching assistant while completing her Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at UBC.