Clyde Derrick

Clyde Derrick is a third generation Californian who received his B.A. in English literature and creative writing from Pomona College, where he won the Dole King Kinney Prize for fiction. He earned an MFA in Cinema at the University of Southern California; his lauded short film Strider’s House has aired on PBS. He worked in the film industry as a screenwriter for Universal Pictures as well a story analyst at several studios, and as a development executive for producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall. Projects he worked on during his Kennedy-Marshall Company tenure included "The Sixth Sense," "Snow Falling on Cedars" and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Clyde most recently won the Omnidawn 2020 Fabulist Fiction Chapbook / Novelette contest for his novella "The Ghost Trio," available through Amazon and University of Chicago Press in January 2023. His first novel, "The Wash," won the Sol Books fiction prize in 2011. He has also written experimental fiction which captured third prize in the “Considering Gertrude Stein” competition at UCLA. His original plays "Angel’s Flight" and "Teshuvah," for which he also contributed original music and lyrics, have been produced at Write Act Repertory in Los Angeles. Clyde has worked extensively in nonprofit fundraising, most recently for UC Riverside, and lives in Claremont, California.