Gail Clark, a native Tennessean, has a B.S. degree from Memphis State University
and a M. A. degree from California's Chapman College. She's completed 2 years
of postgraduate studies in poetry & fiction writing at Stanford University.
Author of two chapbooks, "What Lingers" and "Pumpkin Fire",
Gail taught psychology at the College of Notre Dame in Belmont before she
founded & became director of Clark Poetry Seminars in 1984. She leads
quarterly weekend writing workshops at Asilomar Conference Center on Monterey
Bay. A featured poet at the 17th Annual San Luis Obispo Poetry Festival in
November 2000, Gail has been a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers
for three summers and has studied with poets Stephen Dunn and James Galvin
in Port Townsend, WA. Her poems have appeared in over 50 publications including
Calapooya Collage, The Odessa Review, Coastal Plains Poetry, Lip Service and
Misnomer. She is a book reviewer for Dust Books' Small Press Review and is
a winner of a $250 prize for a sestina in the West Valley College Poetry Olympiad.
Gail Clark is featured at Il Piccolo Caffe, December 2003