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Eli Clare is an American poet, essayist, and activist. Clare is the author of three books and has been featured in several anthologies. [1]
Career
[edit]Clare attended Mills College where he earned his B.A. in Women's Studies.[2] He then went on to get his M.F.A. in Creative Writing at Goddard College.[3]
His book of poetry, The Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2008 and his book Brilliant Imperfection was awarded the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction by the Publishing Triangle.[4][5] He work has appeared in the anthologies Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetics, Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories, and Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out.
Clare helped to organize the first ever Queerness and Disability Conference, which was held at San Francisco State University.[6][7] He also regularly gives speeches on topics including disability, queerness, race, and how they all intersect.
Works
[edit]Non-fiction
[edit]- Brilliant Imperfection OCLC 946461709
- Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation OCLC 958460132
Poetry
[edit]- The Marrow's Telling OCLC 960709419
References
[edit]- ^ "» Bio | Eli Clare". eliclare.com. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- ^ "» Bio | Eli Clare". eliclare.com. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- ^ "» Bio | Eli Clare". eliclare.com. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- ^ "The Complicated and Contradictory Mosaic of Cure: An Interview with Eli Clare". blog.pshares.org. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- ^ "Publishing Triangle". www.publishingtriangle.org. Retrieved 2018-04-28.
- ^ "About the Contributors". Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies. 8 (3): 371–373. 2014-11-08. ISSN 1757-6466.
- ^ "Queer Disability Conference 2002". www.disabilityhistory.org. Retrieved 2018-04-28.