Clifton Snider

Clifton Snider is the internationally acclaimed author of twelve books of poetry, including The Age of the Mother (Laughing Coyote, 1992), The Alchemy of Opposites, Aspens in the Wind (Chiron Review Press, 2000 and 2009), Moonman: New and Selected Poems (World Parade, 2012), The Beatle Bump (Los Nietos, 2016), and Stubborn Heart (Sheila-Na-Gig, 2021). His novel about the bisexual frontman for a 1980's new wave/punk rock band, Loud Whisper, was published in 2000 by Xlibris Corporation. His coming out/coming of age novel, Bare Roots, was published in 2001 by Xlibris, as was his latest autobiographical novel, Wrestling with Angels: A Tale of Two Brothers, about two gay brothers, Pentecostal preacher's sons, one of whom disappears under ominous circumstances. Spout Hill Press published his historical novel, The Plymouth Papers, in 2014.

His poetry and prose have been translated into Arabic, French, Russian, and Spanish. His poems, fiction, reviews, and articles have appeared in such publications as Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, the Advocate, the Gay and Lesbian Review, Worldwide, Blue Mesa Review, Psychological Perspectives, the Wildean, and Mt. Aukum Review.

He is a literary critic who specializes in Jungian/archetypal and Queer Theory. His book, The Stuff That Dreams Are Made On: A Jungian Interpretation of Literature, was published by Chiron Publications in 1991.

He is the recipient of the Lorde-Whitman award from OUT LOUD: A Cultural Evolution.