Clifford Chase is a novelist and memoirist who has written Winkie (Grove Press, 2006), a novel about a sentient teddy bear accused of terrorism that has been translated into 10 languages, The Tooth Fairy: Parents, Lovers, and Other Wayward Deities (2014), and The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother (1995). Chase’s work has also been anthologized in Queer 13: Lesbian & Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade, which was a shortlisted nominee in the Children’s/Young Adult and Nonfiction Anthologies categories at the 1999 Lambda Literary Awards. Most recently, Chase taught creative writing as a visiting writer at Bowling Green University for the English department.
Clifford Chase is a novelist and memoirist who has written Winkie (Grove Press, 2006), a novel about a sentient teddy bear accused of terrorism that has been translated into 10 languages, The Tooth Fairy: Parents, Lovers, and Other Wayward Deities (2014), and The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother (1995). Chase’s work has also been anthologized in Queer 13: Lesbian & Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade, which was a shortlisted nominee in the Children’s/Young Adult and Nonfiction Anthologies categories at the 1999 Lambda Literary Awards. Most recently, Chase taught creative writing as a visiting writer at Bowling Green University for the English department.
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