Clough) (pronounced Cluff)[1] (born November 13, 1955) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

Born Brenda Wang on November 13, 1955, in Washington, D.C., she is the child of Chinese immigrants.

"[4] She is a self-described "State Department brat" who spent a large amount of her childhood and teenage years living in Europe and Asia (including Manila and Hong Kong) due to her father's career.

[7] Starting with her first published novel in 1984, Clough’s works have covered a range of subgenres including, high fantasy, contemporary stories of people with extrasensory perception, time travel stories set in Antarctica, novels set in the Victorian era--including a 12-book historical fiction series following up on Wilkie Collins' 1860 novel The Woman in White--and alternate histories of China from the Bronze Age to steampunk.

Clough taught science fiction and fantasy writing workshops at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland[8][9] and at the Baltimore Science Fiction Society[10] She is a member of the Book View Café writer's cooperative.