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, but ultimately, she likes anything that engages with the unreal and unknown.
Holding a BA in classical languages (summa cum laude, 2018), Clarabelle often draws on motifs and themes from ancient myth to inform her work, and she 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 nomination, and two of her scifi poems, “Docking on Phobos” and “Fireflies in Retrograde”, both exploring the challenges faced by a young mother raising children on an alien planet, received awards in the SFPA’s 2021 Speculative Poetry Contest. More recently, 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 2024 Speculative Poetry Contest.
Clarabelle frequently reads these poems and others at a variety of festivals, open mics, and poetry readings, often as featured poet. She also participates as a regular panelist on RoundTable 360°, a monthly broadcast in which a diverse group of creatives discusses topics relating to art, creativity, and more.
Currently, Clarabelle serves as editor for Carmina Magazine, which aims to offer a creative space for mythology in the modern day. She is in the process of developing "Docking on Phobos" into a fully fledged poetry collection. When she isn't working, 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.