Brenda W. Clough (also credited as B.W. Clough) (pronounced ''Cluff'')Brenda Visits
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writer. She has been nominated for the

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and Nebula Awards in 2002 for her novella '' May Be Some Time''. As of 2014, she taught writing workshops at the Writers Center in

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Background and personal life

Born Brenda Wang on November 13, 1955, in

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, she is the child of parents born in China, and states, "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... My father worked for the State Department, and so we lived in Asia and Europe for years. Until we get an off-planet colony going, living in a foreign country is as good as we're going to get, meeting aliens. There are still places on this planet where you can go and it's as foreign as Mars"; according to her website, "as a girl" she attended the American School of Vientiane in Laos, and her recollections include incidents in

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. She later attended Carnegie Mellon University. She lives with her husband, Larry Clough, in

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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 * ''Out of the Abyss'' (as yet unpublished sequel to ''Doors of Death and Life'')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
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), ''Amazing'', April 1993 *"The Bottomless Pit", ''

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'', 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, 200

*" May Be Some Time", ''Analog'', April 2001'' Analog Science Fiction and Fact'', April 2001 *"Tiptoe, On a Fence Post", ''Analog'', July–August 2002 *"Escape Hatch", ''

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'', Autumn 2003 *"How the Bells Came from Yang to Hubei", ''

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'', Tor 2004

Non-fiction

*"Prairie Oysters in Hell: Interpretations of Isherwood in Dramatic Media", ''The Reston Review'', first quarter 1992 link
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References

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Review, "May Be Some Time"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clough, Brenda Living people 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American fantasy writers American science fiction writers American women short story writers American women novelists American writers of Chinese descent Women science fiction and fantasy writers 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers Carnegie Mellon University alumni 1955 births