Bryant L. Clifford grew up on Martha's Vineyard and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he began his life in the arts. He later attended Bennington College in Vermont, where he studied creative writing, and then theater at Stella Adler Conservatory in NYC. Bryant has worked professionally in film and television and has made a living as a painter (house and canvas), sculptor, potter, landscaper and gallery curator. He has received a fellowship residency for his art and writing from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar, VA, and funding from the Maxine Shore Foundation in Carmel, CA, where he currently resides, working as a screenwriter.

The Monarch of Evening Time, his first published volume of poetry and prose, is based on his travels and experiences, and as a close friend of his describes him: "A man in love with love."

The author retorts, "I do love to be loved; I am an amorist, but mostly I write about man and nature, nature as our Mother-Father, man and nature entwined. Nature is what restores. It is both masculine and feminine, the reflection of our true selfhood."

Currently completing his screenplay 'The Sacred Store', Bryant is active in poetry venues from coast to coast. He is a recurring guest on "The Poets Corner" on WOMR, broadcast from Provincetown, MA.

Bryant's dream is to learn how to surf well, play the guitar like Donovan, have someone plant him a garden that is perennially in bloom, to travel the world with a good interpreter, to be always in the NOW, and, of course, to always be writing.