Clyde Derrick

Clyde Derrick earned a BA in English and Creative Writing from Pomona College, where he won the Dole King Kinney Prize for Creative Writing, and an MFA in Cinema Production from USC. His thesis film Strider’s House aired on PBS. Clyde worked as a development executive on such films as The Sixth Sense, Snow Falling on Cedars, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and has written original screenplays for Universal Pictures and the Kennedy-Marshall Company. Three plays he authored or co-authored were staged by Write Act Repertory in Los Angeles, and Transports of the Heart was LA Weekly’s Pick of the Week.

Clyde’s experimental short story “Each One As She Must” won third prize in the Considering Gertrude Stein competition at UCLA. His first novel The Wash won the Sol Books Fiction Prize, and he most recently won the 2020 Omnidawn Prize for Fabulist Fiction for The Ghost Trio.