Public Reading

Photo: Brock Clarke

Brock Clarke is the author of two novels, the critically acclaimed An Arsonist’s Guide to Writer’s Homes in New England and The Ordinary White Boy, and two story collections, Carrying the Torch and What We Won’t Do. Twice a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, his work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, OneStory, the Believer, the Georgia Review, and the Southern Review, as well as the Pushcart Prize and New Stories from the South anthologies. His fiction has also been read on National Public Radio’s series Selected Shorts. He teaches creative writing and English at the University of Cincinnati.