C.L. Clark

Profile

C.L. Clark is a Nebula-nominated and Ignyte award-winning author of several books, including The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost trilogy), Fate’s Bane (2025), and Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf (an Arcane novel) (2025). Their short works of fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various venues, including Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, Tor.com, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

They are also a BFA award-winning and Hugo-nominated editor for their work as co-editor of Podcastle, and won the 2022 Locus award for Best Anthology for We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction of 2020.

They graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA and were a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow. When they’re not writing or working, they’re learning languages, reading about war and [post-]colonial history, or trying not to throw their kettlebells through the wall. They live in London and teach in the MFA in Creative Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.