Steve Clark

Born in New York City, Steve Clark attended Trinity College where he graduated with a degree in Third World Studies and won the John Curtis Underwood Prize for Poetry. A Senior Editor for George Plimpton's The Paris Review (1995 to 2002), Clark published fiction in The Paris Review, poems in magazines (Salinas, Trinity Review), and translated several books from the Spanish and Catalan: Set Planetes by Valentí Gómez, 1997; Flor de fuego (1996) and Locus Naked (2002) by Marga Clark and Valentí Gómez. His first feature film, The Last International Playboy, which he co-wrote and directed, was released theatrically in the United States in 2009. From the Ashes (Desde las cenizas) is his first bilingual book of poems.