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."^[5]

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.^[6] According to her website, "as a girl" she attended the American School of Vientiane in Laos. She later attended Carnegie Mellon University.

She lives with her husband, Larry Clough,^[7] in Portland, Oregon.^[8]

Novels edit

Averidan series edit

• The Crystal Crown, DAW, New York, 1984. ISBN 978-0886772833
• The Dragon of Mishbil, DAW, New York, 1985. ISBN 978-0981848723
• The Realm Beneath, DAW, New York, 1986. ISBN 978-0886771379
• The Name of the Sun, DAW, New York, 1988. ISBN 978-0886772826

Suburban Gods series edit

• How Like a God, Tor Books, New York, 1997. ISBN 978-0312862633
• Doors of Death and Life, Tor Books, New York, 2000. ISBN 978-0312870645
• Out of the Abyss (as yet unpublished sequel to Doors of Death and Life)^[9]

Other novels edit

• An Impossumble Summer, Walker and Company, New York, 1992. ISBN 978-0802781505
• Revise the World, Book View Cafe, 2009. ISBN 978-1-61138-002-6
• Speak to Our Desires, Book View Cafe, 2011. ISBN 978-1-61138-038-5
• The River Twice, Book View Cafe, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61138-764-3
• Meet Myself There, Book View Cafe, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61138-769-8
• The Fog of Time, Book View Cafe, 2019. ISBN 978-1-61138-770-4

Short stories edit

• "Ain't Nothin' but a Hound Dog", Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, 1988 [link]
• "The Indecorous Rescue of Clarinda Merwin", Aboriginal SF, Mar/Apr 1989^[10]
• "Provisional Solution", Carmen Miranda's Ghost is Haunting Space Station Three, 1990
• "La Vita Nuova", Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three, 1990
• "In the Good Old Summer Time", Newer York, 1991
• "Mastermind of Oz" (with Lawrence Watt-Evans), Amazing, April 1993
• "The Bottomless Pit", Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Winter 1994
• "Handing on the Goggles", Superheroes, 1995
• "The Product of the Extremes", How to Save the World 1995
• "To Serve a Prince", Science Fiction Age, Nov. 1995
• "The Birth Day", The Sandman: Book of Dreams, HarperPrism, 1996
• "Grow Your Own", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, 2000
• "Times Fifty", Christianity Today, October 1, 2001 [2]
• "May Be Some Time", Analog, April 2001^[11]
• "Tiptoe, On a Fence Post", Analog, July–August 2002
• "Escape Hatch", Paradox, Autumn 2003
• "How the Bells Came from Yang to Hubei", The First Heroes, Tor 2004

^[12]

Non-fiction edit

• "Prairie Oysters in Hell: Interpretations of Isherwood in Dramatic Media", The Reston Review, first quarter 1992 [link]
• "The Theory and Practice of Titles", SFWA Bulletin, Fall 1995 [link]
• "Why I live in Washington, DC", SFWA Bulletin, Fall 1997
• "Swindlers, Sharks & Scams: Writer Beware!" (with Ann C. Crispin), SFWA Bulletin, series starting in Vol 32, Issue 3, Winter 1998
• Jo Clayton's Online Lifeline, 1999 [link]
• "Inside Worldcon: the Writers Tour", SFWA Bulletin, Spring 2003
• "Pride and Preservation, or Finding a Home for Your Papers" (with Colleen R. Cahill), SFWA Bulletin, Winter 2004

^[12]

• Official website  
• B. W. Clough at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database  
• Review, "May Be Some Time"