Eli Clare (born 1963) is an American writer, activist, educator, and speaker. His work focuses on queer, transgender, and disability issues. Clare was one of the first scholars to popularize the bodymind concept.

Clare was born in Coos Bay in 1963 and grew up in Port Orford, Oregon. He attended Reed College before transferring to Mills College where he received a degree in women's studies in 1985. Clare earned an M.F.A. degree in creative writing from Goddard College in 1993.

Eli Clare coordinated a rape prevention program, and helped organize the first Queerness and Disability Conference in 2002.

His work is associated with the second wave of the disability rights movement and disability justice.

Clare has received a number of awards for his work, including the Creating Change Award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and LGBT Artist of the Year from Michigan Pride. In 2018, Clare received the Richard L. Schlegel Award for visionary LGBTQ leadership from American University. That year, his book Brilliant Imperfection won the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction from Publishing Triangle. In 2019, he was awarded a Disability Futures Fellowship by the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Clare was a visiting scholar at the University at Buffalo's Center for Diversity Innovation for the 2020–2021 academic year. He is also on the advisory board for the Disability Project, housed under the Transgender Law Center, the largest national trans-led organization.

Eli Clare is one of the first scholars to popularize the concept of bodymind. Along with Margaret Price, Clare proposed that the bodymind expresses the interrelatedness of mental and physical processes. Clare uses bodymind in his work Brilliant Imperfection as a way to resist common Western assumptions that the body and mind are separate entities, or that the mind is "superior" to the body.

Other prominent scholars to theorize on bodymind include Price, Sami Schalk, Gloria Anzaldua, and Alyson Patsavas.