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.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Clifford Chase
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1989
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Clifford Chase worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…