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2009 Speaker Dr. George Makana Clark

April 17, 2009

           George Makana Clark grew up in Zimbabwe. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Glimmer Train, The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Review, Tin House, Transition Magazine, Witness,  Zoetrope: All Story, and elsewhere. He is a 2006 O. Henry Prize winner, a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for Fiction Writing, and a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. His collection of stories, The Small Bees’ Honey, was published by White Pine Press. Clark teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Writing Matters

Text Box: Baton Rouge
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Dr. George Makana Clark