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 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 Hong Kong and Manila. 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 Out of the Abyss (as yet unpublished sequel to Doors of Death and Life) Other novels An Impossumble Summer, Walker and Company, New York, 1992.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