Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke is the author of three works of fiction: The Ordinary White Boy (Harcourt, 2001), What We Won’t Do (Sarabande, 2002), and Carrying the Torch (Nebraska, 2005). His fourth book—a novel called An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England—will be published by Algonquin in Spring 2007. His stories and essays have previously appeared in Georgia Review, Southern Review, New England Review, the Believer, Agni, and the Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South anthologies, among other publications. He currently teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

Published in VQR

• The Pity Palace, Writers on Writers - A Special Fiction Issue of VQR
• The Novel is Dead, Long Live the Novel, Summer 2006
• The Ghosts We Love, Summer 2005
• The Misunderstandings, Summer 2004