Marisa P. Clark

Marisa P. Clark is a queer Southerner whose writing appears in Cream City Review, Nimrod, Epiphany, Foglifter, Potomac Review, Rust + Moth, and others, with work forthcoming in Louisiana Literature, Ponder Review, and elsewhere. She was twice the winner of the Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival Prizes (in fiction, 1996; in nonfiction, 1997). The Best American Essays 2011 recognized her creative nonfiction among its Notable Essays. She reads fiction for New England Review and makes her home in New Mexico with three parrots and two dogs.

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Marisa P. Clark  | 
Issue 69.2 Spring 2020

Mother will hide the murderer…. Mother will stay Mum. —Kate Bush, “Mother Stands for Comfort” The right perception of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. —Franz Kafka, The Trial morning, 3 November 1988 I have never held the bat, the murder weapon, […]