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American writer
Brenda W. Clough (also credited as B.W. Clough ) (pronounced Cluff )
[1] is an American
science fiction and
fantasy writer.
[2] She has been nominated for the
Hugo
[3] and
Nebula Awards in 2002 for her novella
May Be Some Time . As of 2014, she taught writing workshops at the Writers Center in
Bethesda, Maryland .
[4]
Background and personal life
Born Brenda Wang on November 13, 1955, in
Washington, D.C. , she is the child of Chinese immigrants. In a 2014 interview, she related that "for the first five years of my life I spoke only Chinese. I am told that I started kindergarten without a word of English. I can remember nothing of this, and now only speak Chinese at, you guessed it, a five-year-old level."
[5]
She is a self-described "
State Department brat" who spent a large amount of her childhood and teenage years living in Europe and Asia (including Manila and Hong Kong) due to her father's career.
[6] According to her website, "as a girl" she attended the
American School of Vientiane in
Laos . She later attended
Carnegie Mellon University .
She lives with her husband, Larry Clough,
[7] in
Portland, Oregon .
[8]
Bibliography
Novels
Averidan series
The Crystal Crown , DAW, New York, 1984.
ISBN
978-0886772833
The Dragon of Mishbil , DAW, New York, 1985.
ISBN
978-0981848723
The Realm Beneath , DAW, New York, 1986.
ISBN
978-0886771379
The Name of the Sun , DAW, New York, 1988.
ISBN
978-0886772826
Suburban Gods series
How Like a God , Tor Books, New York, 1997.
ISBN
978-0312862633
Doors of Death and Life , Tor Books, New York, 2000.
ISBN
978-0312870645
Out of the Abyss (as yet unpublished sequel to Doors of Death and Life )
[9]
Other novels
An Impossumble Summer , Walker and Company, New York, 1992.
ISBN
978-0802781505
Revise the World , Book View Cafe, 2009.
ISBN
978-1-61138-002-6
Speak to Our Desires , Book View Cafe, 2011.
ISBN
978-1-61138-038-5
The River Twice , Book View Cafe, 2019.
ISBN
978-1-61138-764-3
Meet Myself There , Book View Cafe, 2019.
ISBN
978-1-61138-769-8
The Fog of Time , Book View Cafe, 2019.
ISBN
978-1-61138-770-4
Short stories
"Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog", Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine , 1988 [
link
"The Indecorous Rescue of Clarinda Merwin", Aboriginal SF , Mar/Apr 1989
[10]
"Provisional Solution", Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three , 1990
"La Vita Nuova", Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three , 1990
"In the Good Old Summer Time", Newer York , 1991
"Mastermind of Oz" (with
Lawrence Watt-Evans ), Amazing , April 1993
"The Bottomless Pit",
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine , Winter 1994
"Handing on the Goggles", Superheroes , 1995
"The Product of the Extremes", How to Save the World 1995
"To Serve a Prince", Science Fiction Age , Nov. 1995
"The Birth Day",
The Sandman: Book of Dreams , HarperPrism, 1996
"Grow Your Own", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine , 2000
"Times Fifty", Christianity Today , October 1, 2001
[2]
"
May Be Some Time ", Analog , April 2001
[11]
"Tiptoe, On a Fence Post", Analog , July–August 2002
"Escape Hatch",
Paradox , Autumn 2003
"How the Bells Came from Yang to Hubei",
The First Heroes , Tor 2004
[12]
Non-fiction
"Prairie Oysters in Hell: Interpretations of Isherwood in Dramatic Media", The Reston Review , first quarter 1992 [
link
"The Theory and Practice of Titles", SFWA Bulletin , Fall 1995 [
link
"Why I live in Washington, DC", SFWA Bulletin , Fall 1997
"Swindlers, Sharks & Scams: Writer Beware!" (with
Ann C. Crispin ), SFWA Bulletin , series starting in Vol 32, Issue 3, Winter 1998
Jo Clayton's Online Lifeline , 1999 [
link
"Inside Worldcon: the Writers Tour", SFWA Bulletin , Spring 2003
"Pride and Preservation, or Finding a Home for Your Papers" (with Colleen R. Cahill), SFWA Bulletin , Winter 2004
[12]
References
^
Brenda Visits , by Sue Lange, at BookviewCafe.com; published April 31, 2009; retrieved February 14, 2021; "rhymes with rough "
^
"Locus Online: News, April 2002" . LocusMag.com. Retrieved 2011-03-08 .
^
"2002 Hugo Award Nominees" . Archived from
the original on 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2014-08-21 .
^
"Brenda W. Clough's Website" . Retrieved 2014-08-20 .
^ Schweitzer, Darrell.
"Intergalactic Interview With Brenda Clough" . Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (issue 37; January 2014) . Orson Scott Card. Retrieved 9 June 2021 .
^ Schweitzer, Darrell.
"Intergalactic Interview With Brenda Clough" . Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (issue 37; January 2014) . Orson Scott Card. Retrieved 9 June 2021 .
^
"Brenda W. Clough's Website" . Retrieved 2021-06-06 .
^ Clough, Brenda W.
"Brenda Clough's Facebook page, 6-9-2021" . Facebook . Retrieved 9 June 2021 .
^
[1] (Author's website, retrieved 2019-10-11)
^
"The Internet Speculative Fiction Database" .
^
Analog Science Fiction and Fact , April 2001
^
a
b
B. W. Clough at the
Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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