Samuel Clark

Samuel Clark holds an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and is a 2021 participant in the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop for Spiritual Writing. His work appears in literary magazines such as BOOTH, Blood Orange Review, Gris-Gris Literary Journal, the Conium Review, Artemis Journal, and the anthology Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gaps in Literature & the Silences Around Us. He lives in Colorado with his adopted cat, Emily D.

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Bait Shop on the Bridge

Samuel Clark  | 
Issue 73.1 Fall 2024

I work in an all-night bait shop. When I tell my parents this, I can tell they pity me. Or they’re embarrassed. Probably a little bit of both. When friends ask, “What does your daughter do?” they have to say, “She works at a 24/7 bait shop,” and then their friends ask, “But isn’t she […]

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What’s In My Desk: Samuel Clark

Our surroundings and methods shape our work. In this series, we explore our contributors’ desks, and how what’s in them reveals things about both art and the artist. In this installment, we hear from Samuel Clark, author of “Bait Shop on the Bridge” from Volume 73, Number 1.