Brenda Clough Explained

Brenda Clough
Birth Name:	Brenda Wang
Birth Date:	13 November 1955
Birth Place:	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Other Names:	B.W. Clough
Education:	Carnegie Mellon University
Occupation:	Science fiction and fantasy writer
Notable Works:	May Be Some Time
Spouse:	Larry Clough

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• Out of the Abyss (as yet unpublished sequel to Doors of Death and Life)^[9]

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^[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", , HarperPrism, 1996
• "Grow Your Own", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, 2000
• "Times Fifty", Christianity Today, October 1, 2001 http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/012/3.48.html
• "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

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

External links

• • • Review, "May Be Some Time"

Notes and References

1. https://bookviewcafe.com/blog/2009/04/21/brenda-visits/ Brenda Visits
2. Web site: Locus Online: News, April 2002 . LocusMag.com . 2011-03-08.
3. Web site: 2002 Hugo Award Nominees . 2014-08-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161024214618/http://www.dpsinfo.com/awardweb/hugos/2002.html . 2016-10-24 . dead.
4. Web site: Brenda W. Clough's Website . 2014-08-20.
5. Web site: Schweitzer . Darrell . Intergalactic Interview With Brenda Clough . Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (issue 37; January 2014). Orson Scott Card . 9 June 2021.
6. Web site: Schweitzer . Darrell . Intergalactic Interview With Brenda Clough . Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (issue 37; January 2014). Orson Scott Card . 9 June 2021.
7. Web site: Brenda W. Clough's Website . 2021-06-06.
8. Web site: Clough . Brenda W. . Brenda Clough's Facebook page, 6-9-2021 . Facebook . 9 June 2021.
9. http://www.brendaclough.net/forthcoming.htm
10. Web site: The Internet Speculative Fiction Database.
11. Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 2001