portland-based writer and general artsy-type. professional human being. happy to be here!

Clove Gardener has been writing, publishing and producing for about a decade. They published some short stories - exclusively, somehow, in online literary journals that no longer operate - and put up work in the independent theater circuit. They were invited to stage a reading of one of their scripts at the Last Frontier Theater Festival in 2017, and were featured in the radio show-style, pandemic-era adaptation of the 2021 Lights Up! New Play Festival from City Lights Theater Company. Clove has been a local arts critic for ArtsEarth and the JMS podcast, and in 2009 they published their unfinished novella to Booksie, where it is frozen in time like a bug in amber. Their first self-published book - Blind Trust, the start of a four book urban fantasy and asexual love story - seems to be received pretty well so far on Goodreads.

They are. Not great at bragging, perhaps.

The only way to buy my work is through my store, where you get the best price and I get the highest royalties! You can't lose! Unless you hate them and hate me. In which case - I don't know man. Here's a cat video. It's free.

Side Effects of reading the writing of Clover J. Gardener may include emotional investment, vague unease, confused amusement, complicated reactions, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, dry mouth, drowsiness, rash, headache, reverse leprosy, spontaneous hauntings, thought crimes, real crimes, Big Goo, martyrdom, Pharaoh's curse, verbal curses (Fuck, ect), spontaneous fluency in a dead language, by-proxy allegiance to the daemon sultan Azathoth, new awareness of Air Texture, phantom sightings, phantom peeing, free DVD copies of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Phantom Thread, future sight, retrospective awareness, present blindness, the arrival of Geoff, and death - followed immediately by rebirth, but your new life is as an axolotl, and if the Julio Cortazar short story is to be believed that is a terrible thing, apparently. Ask a doctor if the writing of Clover J. Gardener is write for you. Tell Clover J. Gardener what the doctor says in response. Clover J. Gardener is desperate for the validation of any and all medical professionals. 

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