About the Author
Kim Clark
Author
Kim Clark is an author, poet and playwright and gimp. Clark has published short fiction--Attemptations (Caitlin Press)--and poetry: Middle Child of Summer (Leaf Press), Sit You Waiting (Caitlin Press), and Dis ease and De sire, The M anu s cript (Lipstick Press), as well as co-editing the red-head anthology, Canadian Ginger (Oolichan Books). She's also been a finalist in Theatre BC's Playwriting Competition and has a novella under option for a feature-length film. Clark is the author of A One-Handed Novel. She lives in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.
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