Eli Clare is a poet, essayist, and social justice educator. His nonfiction debut Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation (1999), narrated his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist and writer, and is credited with breaking new ground at the intersection of disability politics and queer liberation. His 2007 work, The Marrow’s Telling: Words in Motion, combines poetry and prose to dramatize the body as a site of personal and political history. Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, praised the collection, citing how Clare “delineates a complex human intersection and transmutes cruelty into its opposite—a potent, lifegiving remedy.” In 2017, Clare published Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, which scrutinizes how bodies are cared for—and controlled—by concepts of how to cure them. Brilliant Imperfection received the Publishing Triangle’s Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction in 2018. Clare’s work has also been recognized with a Disability Futures fellowship, an initiative funded by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to amplify the voices of disabled creatives.. He currently serves on the Community Advisory Board for the Disability Project at the Transgender Law Center.
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