Degree:

MFA, Creative Writing, University of Alabama
B.A., English & Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College

Research Interests
Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, playwriting, and hybrid genres, transgender and queer theory, Early Modern literature, art history, performance and media studies, ecocriticism

Biography:

Acie Clark is a multi-disciplinary writer from Florida and Georgia. They received their MFA from the University of Alabama where they worked for Black Warrior Review as the online editor for Boyfriend Village and as a farmhand at Snows Bend. They have also worked for various art organizations including ArteSana, AS220, the Interlochen Summer Arts Program, and more.

Their poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has been published in Puerto del Sol, Poet Lore, Shenandoah, Foglifter, American Short Fiction, Passages North, The Massachusetts Review, and others. A Fine Arts Work Center fellow, Clark’s work has also been supported by the Shipman Agency, Poets Corner, the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, and their beloved Faulkner County Library.

They teach Poetry and Playwriting at the University of Central Arkansas, where they are also the faculty advisor for the Vortex magazine. Go Bears!