GAS 36 with professor /poet / musician JIM CLARK

JIM CLARK was born in Byrdstown, Tennessee. He holds the B.A. from Vanderbilt University, where he edited The Vanderbilt Poetry Review, the M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was Associate Editor of the Greensboro Review, and the Ph.D. from the University of Denver, where he was Managing Editor of the Denver Quarterly. In 1985 he was the Alan Collins Scholar in Poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. In 1997, he was chosen to read in the North Carolina Writers' Network's Blumenthal Writers & Readers Series. He has also won the Harriette Simpson Arnow short story award, the Randall Jarrell Scholarship and the Merrill Moore Writing Award. He is the recipient of The Jefferson Pilot Outstanding Faculty Member Award for 2002-2003.