C. L. Clark — Cherae Lichelle Clark — is an American fantasy writer, editor and teacher. Born in Oklahoma and raised in Kansas City, she graduated from Indiana University's MFA in creative writing and was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow; she has since worked as a personal trainer, an English teacher and an editor, and teaches on the faculty of Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her debut novel, The Unbroken (2021), opened the Magic of the Lost trilogy, a queer anti-colonial political fantasy continued...