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Matt Clark (1967-1998) was a prolific short story writer and also the author of the novel, Hook Man Speaks. He held an MFA from Louisiana State University, and while a graduate student there, he was a fiction editor the New Delta Review. He became the director of the graduate writing program at LSU at the age of 29, and he died of liver and colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 31.

His friends and fellow authors, Michael Griffith and Josh Russell, are responsible for continued efforts to bring his work to print. His fiction has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, One Story, and Flyway.

Novels

• 2001 Hook Man Speaks

Short-Stories

• 2006 "Baton Rouge: A Doctor Story" in One Story issue number 70.
• 1998 "The West Texas Sprouting of Loman Happenstance" in Texas Bound Book II, page 49.

External link

• - New Delta Review, Matt Clark Bio
• - New Delta Review, The Matt Clark Prize
• - One Story interview with Michael Griffith and Josh Russell
• - Buy Hook Man Speaks on Amazon.com
• - Buy Texas Bound Book II

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