Clyve Lagerquist

My name is Clyve Pavell Lagerquist. I was born and raised on the west coast of Michigan's Lower Penninsula in a tiny town called Onekama.

After high school, where I played soccer, was in symphonic and jazz band, held lead roles in school plays and musicals, captained the Quiz Bowl team to two state tournaments and graduated Summa Cum Laude, I attended Michigan State University. I majored in English with concentrations in creative writing and film studies (including a study abroad to the British Film Institute in London and the Edinburgh Film Festival). I graduated in 2012 with a BA in English from the College of Arts and Letters and high standing in the Honors College as well as a minor in Philosophy.

My drive in life is writing. I am, if nothing else, a story teller. I love to make people laugh and as such I try to write comedy as much as the muse will let me. I write screenplays and short stories. I don't like poetry and I am absolutely horrible at it.

I'm also a huge philosophy nerd and love reading philosophy tracts--for fun. While not subscribing utterly to any one brand of thinking, I enjoy contemplating Critical Social Theory, especially from Honneth and Habermas, phenonmenology, mostly by Merleau-Ponty and Sartre, Camus's notion of the absurd, Soren Kirkegaard, and anything Marx or Nietzsche.

I'm a lifelong fan of association football (soccer) and watch the European game frequently as well as a huge baseball fan and a fan of all sports Michigan State.