Brenda Clough Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

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.

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.