Terence Clarke is a novelist (Mercury House, Ballantine Books, Florícanto Press, A/T Publishers ), a short-story writer (The Yale Review, The Antioch Review,The Chariton Review, Tampa Review, Kindle Singles and many others), a journalist (San Francisco Chronicle, Salon.com, Huffington Post), and a translator of literature from Spanish to English. Among his favorite authors, he mentions Jane Austen, Frank O'Connor, and Eduardo Galeano. (His absolute favorite novel is Pride and Prejudice.) His own novels include When Clara Was Twelve (to be published on April 15, 2020), The Notorious Dream of Jesús Lázaro, My Father in the Night, The Splendid City, and A Kiss for Señor Guevara. His short-story collections include The Day Nothing Happened, Little Bridget and the Flames of Hell, and New York.

Clarke is also the co-founder and director of publishing at Astor & Lenox. (www.astorandlenox.com).  

"There has never really been a time when I haven't been writing," he says. "When I was a student, I was very influenced by the life styles of the Romantics, and went around with a manufactured scowl on my face, bearing the poetic weight of the world. It didn't hurt that I was living in San Francisco at the time, and could emulate the Beatniks I saw worrying publically about their manuscripts in local cafés. As I began publishing my work, though, I discovered --more truthfully-- that I love the process of writing. The puzzle of telling a story. The searching for, and the creation, of a memorable character. The exploration of feeling, the fine pleasure of bringing a story to fruition. Writing is tough. But now, it is simply a joyful undertaking for me."