George Clark
Degrees
PhD, Florida State University, 1996
Research Interest
Creative Writing (Fiction)
Teaching Interests
Creative Writing
African Literature
Global Anglophone Literature
Recent Publications
Stories, plays, and poems
The Granta Book of the African Short Story, Apalachee Quarterly, Black Warrior Review, Chelsea, Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Glimmer Train, Massachusetts Review, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2006, The Southern Review, Tin House, Transition Magazine, Zoetrope: All Story, and elsewhere.
Awards
O. Henry Prize, 2006
Finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing, 2003
National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for Fiction Writing, 2002-3
Finalist for the National Magazine Award for Fiction, 2000
Seven short stories selected for inclusion in "100 Distinguished Stories" in Best American Short Stories anthologies
Work in Progress
Tree of Diamond (novel-in-progress)