Since she is a new editor, she feels like all of the stories she has gotten to have a hand in are these little treasures she has found and got to add into the hoard. They get a bunch of fairies and mermaids, which they aren’t against, however these stories will need to be fiercely unique.

However she generally wants more second world stories that take some old guard fantasy and do something new on it. She told her that she would be fine just as long she was working in and with the fantasy genre.Īs an editor, she’d like to see more queer swordshumans. It was funny timing since she was just leaving one country and job and attempting to find her next step, so a friend had her do some soul-searching. she was reading for Clarkesworld during this time and they just published Cherae’s story “Burning Season” earlier that same year. She was recruited by Jen and Khaalidah right at the end of 2018. Sometimes, she even is able to narrate and host, which she likes. At PodCastle, she helps to make the final choices on stories, find some narrators, and some other behind-the-scenes things. She’s also one of the co-editors at PodCastle. Her work has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, PodCastle, Uncanny, and FIYAH.

When not working or writing, she is doing some P90 something or other, learning languages, reading about war and post-colonial history. She has been an English teacher, a personal trainer, and an editor, and is some combo while traveling the world. Author Cherae Clark is originally from Kansas City and graduated from Indiana University’s creative writing MFA.

The unbroken cl clark