Prize Winning Author Honored Again
Critics have praised Brock Clarkes writing for its exceptional originality and amazing emotional resonance, and he has a new honor to prove that the accolades are justified.
Virginia Quarterly Review
, one of the nations foremost literary journals, awarded him the 2005 Emily Balch Prize for his short story, The Ghosts We Love. The work appears in his collection,
Carrying the Torch
, which won the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Short Fiction.
In 2002, Clarke was the recipient of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction for his collection of stories,
What We Wont Do
. The author of a 2001 novel,
The Ordinary White Boy
, he has received a Puschcart Prize, a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship in Fiction, and an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship.
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