Eli Clare
Writer, speaker, activist, teacher, poet.
Eli Clare weaves hope, critical analysis, and compassionate storytelling together in his work on disability and queerness/transness, insisting on the twine of race, class, gender, sexuality, disability, and environmental justice.
New Book Coming! Unfurl: Poems, Essays, and In-Betweens
Eli is hard at work on a new book, tentatively titled Unfurl: Poems, Essays, and In-Betweens. It examines the making and unmaking of categories and asks the question: who might we become if we unfurl ourselves between and through categories, across divides of human and more-than-human, animate and inanimate?
![Eli Clare at beach-crop Head shot of a man with pale skin, short reddish hair and glasses, and an earring in one ear. Behind him is some driftwood.](https://eliclare.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Eli-Clare-at-beach-crop-q0yejpwjs0qjj90xr56dyy7n3gmgzlaohnv90a02sg.png)
![Eli Clare at beach-crop Head shot of a man with pale skin, short reddish hair and glasses, and an earring in one ear. Behind him is some driftwood.](https://eliclare.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Eli-Clare-at-beach-crop-q0yejpwjs0qjj90xr56dyy7n3gmgzlaohnv90a02sg.png)
Whether keynoting a conference, helping build queer disability community, or facilitating an anti-ableism training, Eli brings a poet’s passion for language and an activist’s passion for social justice to his work.
![Brilliant Imperfection cover Book cover: Brilliant Imperfection - Grappling with cure, by Eli Clare. ( in the background is a pile of brown, gray and black stones with one green stone in the middle.)](https://eliclare.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Brilliant-Imperfection-cover-q0yer3wvi4uoswajlu5t2l337i7chxmpu8hntl1nvk.jpg)
![Brilliant Imperfection cover Book cover: Brilliant Imperfection - Grappling with cure, by Eli Clare. ( in the background is a pile of brown, gray and black stones with one green stone in the middle.)](https://eliclare.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Brilliant-Imperfection-cover-q0yer3wvi4uoswajlu5t2l337i7chxmpu8hntl1nvk.jpg)
Eli’s groundbreaking books–Brilliant Imperfection, Exile and Pride, and The Marrow’s Telling–are read by academics and activists alike. They are used frequently in classrooms and passed among friends.
![bannerJG-Eli speaking-350px Eli stands in front of a microphone speaking with one arm raised.](https://eliclare.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/bannerJG-Eli-speaking-350px-q2yagh9pmi9qis0hzmgn8nbbsddoalxpseulhfoly8.jpg)
![bannerJG-Eli speaking-350px Eli stands in front of a microphone speaking with one arm raised.](https://eliclare.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/bannerJG-Eli-speaking-350px-q2yagh9pmi9qis0hzmgn8nbbsddoalxpseulhfoly8.jpg)
Thought-provoking, compassionate, and challenging, Eli will enliven your classroom, fire up your conference, and educate your organization. Bring him to your community or campus to teach, speak, or train.
Banner image: Eli Clare – Painting by Riva Leher. Photo of Eli at beach by Samuel Lurie. Photo of Eli at the mic by Mengwen Cao.