C. L. Clark

C. L. Clark earned an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University Bloomington and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow.^[2]

Clark's short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Beneath Ceaseless Skies, FIYAH Literary Magazine, Glitter + Ashes: Queer Tales of a World That Wouldn't Die, PodCastle, Tor.com, Uncanny, The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, 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.

Clark served as a co-editor of PodCastle from 2019 to 2021.^[3] 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.^[1] We're Here won the 2022 Ignyte Award for Best Anthology/Collected Work and the 2022 Locus Award for Best Anthology.

Clark's debut novel, 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.

• —— (2021). The Unbroken. Orbit Books. ISBN 9780316542753.
• —— (2023). The Faithless. Orbit Books. ISBN 9780316542760.
• —— (2025). The Sovereign. Orbit Books. ISBN 9780316542883.

• "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

• ”Everyone’s in Love, but Nobody’s Horny”, published on Reactor.com (formerly Tor.com), 2025
• "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^[3]