Carin Clevidence grew up in a family of naturalists and travelers. She is the author of a novel, The House on Salt Hay Road (FSG) as well as travel essays and short stories appearing in O Magazine, OZY, Panorama, the Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She has worked as a deckhand in Baja, Mexico and an assistant expedition leader in Antarctica, and received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, and Sustainable Arts, and residencies at VCCA, the Hermitage Artists’ Retreat, Ledig House, Brush Creek, Marble House Project, Willapa Bay AiR, and Yaddo.
At MacDowell, she worked on a novel set onboard an expedition cruise ship in Antarctica .
