About
Clarabelle Miray Fields is an award-winning speculative writer from Boulder, Colorado, who enjoys spending her nights imagining alternate realities where dragons are real and alien ships sparkle among faraway stars. She usually finds herself writing on the edges of reality somewhere between the lines of fantasy, scifi, and slipstream.
Holding a BA in classical languages (summa cum laude, 2018) and a former Fulbright Summer Institute participant, Fields often draws on themes from ancient myth to inform her work. Sshe is especially interested in centering women’s voices and experiences in her writing. Her feminist revisionist myth poem “Penelope, the truth” (Corvid Queen, April 2020) earned a Rhysling and Best of the Net nomination, and two of her scifi poems, “Docking on Phobos” and “Fireflies in Retrograde”, both exploring the fears of a young mother raising children on an alien planet, received awards in the SFPA’s 2021 Speculative Poetry Contest.
In 2024, her poem "Stasis in Hyperdrive", a meditation on transience, space travel, and what it means to be human, also earned an award in the SFPA's Speculative Poetry Contest. Most recently, her dystopian-tinged scifi poem, "terraforming", about Mars, the future, and humans' tendency towards political short-sightedness, placed third in its category in the same contest for 2025.
Currently, Fields serves as editor for Carmina Magazine, which aims to offer a creative space for mythology in the modern day. She also writes regularly as staff poet for Vinegar Press and participates as a panelist on RoundTable 360, a monthly gathering of online creatives.
Described as having a powerful stage presence and a steady voice, Fields frequently reads her poems at a variety of open mics and events. When she isn't working or writing, she enjoys drinking the darkest coffee she can find, spending time outdoors, and reading, her favorite authors being Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia E. Butler, and Alan Moore. By far, though, what she loves most is sitting outside beneath the stars.