Brenda W. Clough (also credited as B.W. Clough) (pronounced Cluff) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She has been nominated for the Hugo 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.
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."
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. 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, in Portland, Oregon.
Bibliography
Novels
Averidan series
The Crystal Crown, DAW, New York, 1984. The Dragon of Mishbil, DAW, New York, 1985. The Realm Beneath, DAW, New York, 1986. The Name of the Sun, DAW, New York, 1988.
Suburban Gods series
How Like a God, Tor Books, New York, 1997. Doors of Death and Life, Tor Books, New York, 2000. Out of the Abyss (as yet unpublished sequel to Doors of Death and Life)
Other novels
An Impossumble Summer, Walker and Company, New York, 1992. Revise the World, Book View Cafe, 2009. Speak to Our Desires, Book View Cafe, 2011. The River Twice, Book View Cafe, 2019. Meet Myself There, Book View Cafe, 2019. The Fog of Time, Book View Cafe, 2019.
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 "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 "May Be Some Time", Analog, April 2001 "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
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
References
External links
Review, "May Be Some Time"