G. O. CLARK POET/WRITER
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  G. O. Clark - poet & writer of the fantastic

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MY BOOKS

Bone Sprockets - Dark Regions Press, 2004. "Each poem is a small clockwork nightmare that delivers the mental impact of a sledgehammer blow". --J. C. Comeau, Creature Features

A Box Full Of Alien Skies -
Dark Regions Press, 2001. "...A Box Full Of Alien Skies should fill that gap in poetry left by Ray Bradbury's more literary fiction endeavors, proving that, yes, Virginia, it is a Science Fictional world...." --Trent Walters, SF Site

The Other Side Of The Lens -
Dark Regions Press, 2003. "Economical, clever, and ever-so-subtle, Clark's newest collection shows us what it's like in his world, on the other side of the lens." --Patrick Swenson, Talebones Magazine

25 Cent Rocket Ship To The Stars -
Dark Regions Press, 2007.  "...these poems read like enchanting, nostalgic fables of the Space Age. And every now and then, Clark tosses in a surreal bombshell...just to loft your pleasures to a new realm of imagination." --Paul Di Filippo, Asimov's Science Fiction.

Mortician's Tea - Sam's Dot Publishing, 2009. "The truth is, Clark can take a certain type of sophistication and use it to either tickle you, or slap you around the face. I cannot remember the last time a poetry collection made me smile this much, and I can think of no bigger compliment to pay the author."--Edward Cox, Star*Line Magazine.

Strange Vegetables - Dark Region's Press, 2009. "With brevity, wit, and a dash of the surreal, the poems in G. O. Clark's Strange Vegetables serve up snapshots of diverse speculative scenarios -- at times profound in their insight, often strange in their imagination, always entertaining!" --Bruce Boston, Bram Stoker Award author of Pitchblende and Shades Fantastic.

The Saucer Under My Bed and Other Stories   - Sam's Dot Publishing, 2011. "There’s one thing you can expect from poet/author G. O. Clark: the unexpected. In this slim volume of short stories, Mr. Clark investigates some very weird science fiction and fantasy realms. A very revealing conversation takes place in “The Interview with the Monster in the Closet”, a man who dies of cancer decides to catch up on his reading in “Ghost Reader”, and the titular tale informs the reader exactly how to respond to finding a UFO under their bed. Funny, scary, informative and just plain fun, Mr. Clark regales the reader with his trademark weirdness and sense of humor. Do you know what scary monsters do on their day off? I didn’t know, either, until I read THE SAUCER UNDER MY BED AN OTHER STORIES. This book might be too much fun for you, so be very careful when handling it, okay?" -- J.L. Comeau 2/17/12 at Creature Features online, http://www.countgore.com/gore/tomb.htm

Shroud Of Night - Dark Region's Press, 2011. "In Shroud Of Night G. O. Clark's poetry doesn't just chill you with its weirdness; it often goes for a sucker punch right to your gut. This is horror poetry at its best: writing that is deftly morbid, terrifyingly astute, while also being playful in a way that horror fiction just can't touch. -- Michael A. Arnzen, Bram Stoker Award winning author of Proverbs for Monsters.

[Shroud of Night" was a final ballot nominee for the 2012 Stoker Award, poetry collection]
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White Shift - Sam's Dot Publishing, 2012. "G. O. Clark’s White Shift is a welcome addition to his already impressive list of publications. This is a poet who always surprises in terms of technique but also remains consistent in terms of quality."  -- John Garrison, Star*Line Magazine, 2013.


Scenes Along the Zombie Highway  - Dark Regions Press, 2013. "Grisly and smartly funny! G. O. Clark renders the juiciest bits of modern zombie lore into ironic, poignant, and often wry reflections of modern society filtered through a warped sense of humor we all hope the walking dead will have when the zombie apocalypse finally arrives."  --James Chambers, author of Corpse Fauna and The Engines of Sacrifice.

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NOTE: LIMITED, SIGNED COPIES OF ALL MY BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE FROM ME - EMAIL FOR DETAILS - goclark@att.net

Dark Regions Press collections are also available from --

www.darkregions.com

Sam's Dot Publishing collections are also available from -
www.samsdotpublishing.com

[Click on book covers above to link to Amazon, etc.]
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RECENT MAGAZINE/EZINE PUBLICATIONS & OTHER NEWS

"Beach Combing A Singularity", poem, Penumbra Magazine, August 2012, ezine,
http://penumbra.musapublishing.com/
"My House Of the Future", poem, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 2012.
"The Strange Adventures Of Helioman", poem, Magazine of Speculative Poetry, August 2012.
"Frosty", flash fiction, Dark Eclipse #12, 2012, Dark Moon Books, available on Amazon Kindle.
"Last Chance", poem, The Martian Wave, 2012, Sam's Dot Publishing, www.samsdotpublishing.com
"2001", poem, Space&Time Magazine, #117, Fall 2012.
"Selected Titles From the Poor Man's Genre Library", Parody Magazine, Vol 1, Issue 2, 2012.
"Just Another Day In the Burbs", poem, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 2013.
"The Carolers", poem, Star*Line, Vol. 35:4, Oct./Dec. 2012.
"Snowflake Galaxies", poem, Dwarf Stars Anthology, 2012.
"Ancient Scrolls", poem, Scifaikuest, Nov. 2012.
"The Twins", short story, Tales of the Zombie War, Jan. 29, 2013, ezine.
"Truth In Advertising", poem, Static Movement, March 2013, ezine.
"Where To Find the Martians", poem, Static Movement, March  2013, ezine.
"Senior Encounter of the Third Kind", poem, Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, June 2013.
"Unreal Traffic Conditions", poem, Dreams & Nightmares Magazine, #95, 2013.

2011 Bram Stoker Finalist, superior achievement in poetry, "Shroud Of Night", Dark Regions Press, (awarded 2012).

2012 Rhysling Award, 2nd Place, Long Poem, "The 25-Cent Rocket: One-Quarter of the Way to the Stars", a collaboration with Kendall Evans, (originally published in Dreams & Nightmares Magazine, #89, 2011).

"The 25-Cent Rocket: One-Quarter of the Way to the Stars" by myself and Kendall Evans, is part of the 2012 Rhysling Award winners podcast at StarShipSofa, #246, 9/19/12 - http://www.starshipsofa.com/  It begins about 53 minutes into the podcast as part of the Poetry Planet segment.

2012 Dwarf Stars Award, SFPA, 3rd place for poem "Snowflake Galaxies".

"Snowflake galaxies", is included in the Dwarf Stars Award winners podcast at StarShipSofa, #269, http://www.starshipsofa.com/
It begins about 120 minutes into the broadcast as part of the Poetry Planet segment.

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BIOGRAPHY

I was born in 1945 -- Gary Osgood Clark etched upon my birth certificate -- in the small rural town of Norfolk, MA. There and in the adjoining town of Millis I spent the next twelve or so years learning about nature, cheering on the Red Sox, and experiencing science fiction for the first time via Jules Verne, Tom Swift, and Godzilla. In 1959, both my sisters grown and on their own, my parents suddenly decided to move to California. Packing most of our belongings into a '57 Ford Fairlane, my dear aunt coming along for the ride, we all squeezed inside and trekked across country picking up Rt. 66 near Chicago and eventually ending up in San Jose, CA. I've lived in California ever since, for 25 years in the San Francisco bay area, and finally here in Davis, where my son Ian grew up, and where I worked for the last twenty five years as a library assistant at the University Of California before retiring.

It was during my college years that I first tried my hand at writing, taking fiction writing classes at San Jose State Univ., and then on my own, attempting poetry. It was a survey course in contemporary American poetry taught by Rob Swigart, (who later went on to write a number of novels) that helped spur my interest. Many rejection slips later, a short nature poem of mine was published in the Big Sur Gazette in 1979. More rejection slips followed, but so did acceptances. Eventually two chapbooks of my poems saw print, Letting the Eye to Wonder and 7 Degrees of Something, in 1990 and 1991 respectively. These were pretty much mainstream poems, though as one reviewer recently discovered, a few seeds of speculative poetry can be found among them. My first speculative poem was actually published in 1988, in the Magazine of Speculative Poetry, but there was a gap of four years before the next one appeared in Star*Line -
a publication of the Science Fiction Poetry Association - http://www.sfpoetry.com/. Since then many publications have printed my more out there work, (see bibliography), nine poetry collections and one short story collection have seen print, and I've received some positive criticism and award recognition along the way; Asimov's Readers Award 2001, 2nd place Rhysling Award 2001,2012, and Stoker Award final ballot 2012.

Contact - goclark@att.net.


Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/gary.o.clark


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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

POETRY CHAPBOOKS/BOOKS:

Range & Section, [s.n.]. Davis, CA, 1985,
[with Noel Peattie, Sabra Basler, Bill Ludington, & Jim Silva (photography)]. (op)
Letting the Eye to Wonder, 1990, MFA Press, NY. (op)
7 Degrees of Something, 1991, Mulberry Press, KS. (op)
A Box Full of Alien Skies, 2001, Dark Regions Press, CA. (op)
The Other Side of the Lens, 2003, Dark Regions Press, CA.
Bone Sprockets, 2004, Dark Regions Press, CA.
25 Cent Rocket to the Stars, 2007, Dark Regions Press, CA.
Mortician's Tea, 2009, Sam's Dot Publishing, Iowa. (op)
Strange Vegetables, 2009, Dark Regions Press, CA.
Shroud Of Night, 2011, Dark Regions Press, CA.
White Shift, 2012, Sam's Dot Publishing, Iowa.

Scenes Along the Zombie Highway, 2013, Dark Regions Press, CA.

FICTION COLLECTIONS

The Saucer Under My Bed & Other Stories, 2011, Sam's Dot Publishing, Iowa.

POEMS ANTHOLOGIZED IN:

Anti-War Poems II, Vesta Publ., Ontario, Canada, 1986,
edited by Stephen Gill.
Dan River Anthology, 1986, edited Richard Danbury III.
Crossings: Beyond The Parallel Lines,1993 (published by Gaslight Magazine editor)
Star Trek -- The Poems, Iron Press, England, 2000, edited by Valerie Laws.
The Largness the Small Is Capable Of, Summer 2001, (special issue Score #16).
2001: A Science Fiction Poetry Anthology, Anamnesis Press, 2001, edited by Keith Allen Daniels.
The Sacramento Anthology: One Hundred Poems, Sacramento Metropolitan
Arts Commission, 2001, edited by Dennis Schmitz & Viola Weinberg.
Snow Birds In Cloud Hands, Cerulean Press, 2003, edited by Blair H. Allen.
Sporty Spec, 2007, Raven Electric Ink, ed. by Karen Romanko.
Dwarf Stars Anthology, 2007, ed. by Deborah Kolodji.
Cinema Spec, 2009, Raven Electric Ink, ed. by Karen Romanko.
Retro Spec, 2010, Raven Electric Ink, ed. by Karen Romanko
A Sea of Alone: Poems For Alfred Hitchcock, 2011, Dark Scribe Press, ed. by Christopher Conlon.
Entering: the Davis Poetry Anthology, 2011, ed. by Allegra Silberstein.
A Feast of Frights From the Horror Zine, 2012, ed. Jeani Rector.

Rhysling Anthology, by year: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012.
Dwarf Stars Anthology, 2012, ed. Joshua Gage, SFPA.

FICTION PUBLISHED IN:

Worlds of Wonder, Tales of the Talisman, Flash Fantastic, Anotherealm, Cracked Lens,
Coven Of Shadows, Static Movement, La Lune Bleue Planete, Dark Valentine Magazine
, Dark Eclipse,
Tales of the Zombie War.

POETRY PUBLISHED IN:

Asimov's Science Fiction,
Analog, Talebones, Space & Time, Not One Of Us, Mythic Delirium,
Bare Bone, Star*Line, Midnight Zoo, Dark Regions Magazine, Magazine of Speculative Poetry,
Dreams & Nightmares, Tales of the Unanticipated, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Pirate Writings,
Wormwood Review, Sacramento News & Review, Manhattan Poetry Review, Z-Miscellaneous, Strong Verse,

Penumbra, OG, Illumen, and many more speculative and mainstream publications - 1979 to the present.

BOOK & MAGAZINE REVIEWS IN:

Star*Line, 1997 - present
Small Press Review, 2000 - 2002

INDEXED IN: Locus Online, ISFDB Online, American Humanities Index

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PHOTOS OF WRITER/ARTIST FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES
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Geoffrey Landis, Mary Turzillo, Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, WHC 2013 NOLA.
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Chris Morey and Bob Meracle
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Thomas Fante my place 2011.
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Joe McKinney reading at WHC 2013
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