Brenda Clough

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. in Portland, Oregon. ==Career==

Starting with her first published novel in 1984, Clough's works have covered a range of subgenres including, high fantasy, contemporary stories of people with extrasensory perception, time travel stories set in Antarctica, novels set in the Victorian era—including a 12-book historical fiction series following up on Wilkie Collins' 1860 The Woman in White—and alternate histories of China from the Bronze Age to steampunk. Clough taught science fiction and fantasy writing workshops at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland and at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society She is a member of the Book View Café writer's cooperative. ==Bibliography==