Clifford Chase is an American novelist who has written Winkie

Winkie (novel)

Winkie is the 2006 first novel of author Clifford Chase.-Plot:Winkie is the story of a teddy bear of the same name who was accused and imprisoned for over nine thousand charges including terrorism, sodomy, witchcraft, treason and others....

, a novel about a sentient teddy bear accused of terrorism, The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother (Living Out), and who was the editor of Queer 13: Lesbian And Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade.

Chase is currently a Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

, where he instructs courses in creative writing for the English Department. This year he is teaching Techniques of Nonfiction, Advanced Nonfiction Workshop, and Spec. Topics in Creative Writing.

External links

• Official author site, per Grove Press
• Radio Interview on Bookworm, National Public Radio
• Wesleyan Faculty Listing