Carin Clevidence is the author of the novel The House on Salt Hay Road. Her short fiction has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Story, Indiana Review, and elsewhere, and her nonfiction in Guernica, The Common, Washington Post, O Magazine, OZY, Fiction Writers Review, and the anthologies Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones That Haunt Us, First Antarctic Reader, and Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture.

A graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Michigan, she has received awards and fellowships from Massachusetts Cultural Council, Rona Jaffe Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, Sustainable Arts, Yaddo, MacDowell, Virigina Center for the Creative Arts, and elsewhere. She has taught creative writing at the University of Michigan and Smith Pre-College Summer Program, as well as privately run workshops. She grew up in a family of naturalists and travelers, and her past jobs also include deckhand in Baja, Mexico, and an assistant expedition leader in Antarctica. She lives in Northampton, MA.