Brenda Clough writes science fiction and fantasy, mainly novels, and has published eight in two decades, most recently Doors of Death. She also teaches workshops on fantasy and sci-fi writing, including at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. She also has taken up playing the piano after a hiatus of more than 30 years. As a girl, she attended the American School of Vientiane, Laos.
Clough began her career in writing fiction with a fantasy novel, The Crystal Crown, while working as a reporter for a major metropolitan newsletter in 1984. Her other novels include The Dragon of Mishbil, The Realm Beneath, The Name of the Sun, and How Like a God. Her children's novel, An Impossible Summer, is set in her own Virginia home, a cottage at the edge of a forest. A number of Clough's short stories, such as "Home Is the Sailor" and "How to Save the World," have appeared in anthologies. Her novella, May Be Some Time, appeared in the 2001 issue of Analog, and her short story "Times Fifty" appeared in the October 2001 issue of Christianity Today. Her most recent novel, Doors of Death and Life, was published in May 2000.