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- Out of the Abyss (as yet unpublished sequel to Doors of Death and Life)[9]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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