C. L. Clark

C. L. Clark earned an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University Bloomington, was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow, and has studied post-colonial literary theory.{{cite web |title=Interview with author C. L. Clark |url=https://www.geeksout.org/2021/06/09/interview-with-author-c-l-clark/ |last=Kirichanskaya |first=Michele |publisher=GeeksOut |website=www.geeksout.org |date=2021-06-09 |access-date=2022-07-11}}

Clark's short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die, PodCastle, Tor.com, Uncanny, The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), and The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy (2022). Her short story "You Perfect, Broken Thing", published in Uncanny Magazine, won the 2021 Ignyte Award for Best Short Story.{{Cite web |title=Watch the Ignyte Awards |url=https://theconvention.fiyahlitmag.com/watch-the-ignyte-awards/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=FiyahCon2021|date=28 August 2021 }}{{Cite web |last=locusmag |date=2021-09-18 |title=2021 Ignyte Awards Winners |url=https://locusmag.com/2021/09/2021-ignyte-awards-winners/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Locus Online |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Templeton |first=Molly |date=2021-09-20 |title=Announcing the 2021 Ignyte Awards Winners! |url=https://www.tor.com/2021/09/20/announcing-the-2021-ignyte-awards-winners/ |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Tor.com |language=en-US}}

Clark served as a co-editor of PodCastle from 2019 to 2021.{{cite web |title=One Last Time |url=https://podcastle.org/2021/06/01/one-last-time/ |last=Clark |first=Cherae |website=podcastle.org |publisher=PodCastle |date=2021-06-01 |access-date=2022-07-07}} With series editor Charles Payseur, Clark edited We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020, an anthology of queer speculative fiction published by Neon Hemlock. We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2020 won both the 2022 Ignyte Award for Best Anthology/Collected Work and the 2022 Locus Award for Best Anthology.

Clark's debut novel, The Unbroken, was published in 2021 and met with praise from critics, earning a starred review from both Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. The Unbroken was a Finalist for the 2022 Ignyte Award for Best Novel: Adult, the 2021 Nebula Award for Best Novel, the 2022 Locus Award for Best First Novel, and the 2022 British Fantasy Society's Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

• {{Cite book |last=Clark |first=C. L. |title=The Unbroken |publisher=Orbit Books |year=2021 |isbn=9780356516790 |edition=Illumicrate Signed Edition, Hardcover |publication-place= |pages=488 |language=English |author-mask=2}}
• {{Cite book |last=Clark |first=C. L. |title=The Faithless |publisher=Orbit Books |year=2023 |isbn=9780356521442 |edition=Illumicrate Edition, Hardcover |publication-place= |pages=469 |language=English |author-mask=2}}

• "Your Eyes, My Beacon: Being an Account of Several Misadventures and How I Found My Way Home", first published in Uncanny Magazine, issue #46, 2022
• "The Captain and the Quartermaster", first published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #326, 2021
• "When the Last of the Birds and Bees Have Gone On", first published in Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die, Neon Hemlock Press, 2020
• "Forgive Me, My Love, for the Ice and the Sea", first published in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue #296, 2020
• "You Perfect, Broken Thing", first published in Uncanny Magazine, issue #32, 2020
• "The Cook", first published in Uncanny Magazine, issue #22, 2018
• "Burning Season", first published in PodCastle, #519, 2018
• "Sisyphus", first published in FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, issue #4, 2017

• "The Crosses We Bear: The Butch Martyr in SFF", published on Tor.com, 2022
• "WWXD: A Warrior's Path of Reflection and Redemption", published in Uncanny Magazine, issue #41
• "The Fiction of Peace, the Fantasy of War", published in Fantasy Magazine, issue #66, 2021

• We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2020, Neon Hemlock Press, 2021
• PodCastle, co-editor 2019-2021

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• [https://clclarkwrites.com/ Official website]
• [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?261334 C. L. Clark] at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

• [https://www.geeksout.org/2021/06/09/interview-with-author-c-l-clark/ Interview with Author C. L. Clark] Michele Kirichanskaya, Geeks Out, 2021
• [https://winteriscoming.net/2021/03/20/interview-c-l-clark-discusses-fantasy-novel-unbroken/ C. L. Clark Tells Us About Her New Fantasy Book, The Unbroken] Daniel Roman, winteriscoming.net, 2021
• [http://readingtheend.com/2021/03/24/episode-144-interview-with-cl-clark-author-of-the-unbroken/ Episode 144 - Interview with CL Clark, Author of The Unbroken] Gin Jenny, Reading the End, 2021
• [https://wordwoonders.com/color-the-shelves-interview-with-c-l-clark-author-of-the-unbroken/ Color the Shelves - Interview with C. L. Clark, author of The Unbroken] Fadwa, Word Wonders, 2021
• [https://diymfa.com/podcast/episode-354-cl-clark Episode 354: Character, Conflict, and World Building in Fantasy - Interview with C. L. Clark] Gabriela Pereira, diyMFA, 2021

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