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Samuel Clark

Samuel Clark holds an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. A recipient of the LGBTQ+ scholarship to the Muse & the Marketplace 2019 and a 2021 participant for the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, his work has been published in literary magazines such as BOOTH, Blood Orange Review, Artemis Journal, Shenandoah, and the anthology Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gaps in Literature & the Silences Around Us. He lives in Colorado with his adopted cat, Emily D.

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Mama tells me that growing up, all she wanted was a wraparound porch. Says while those other girls were dreaming of diamond rings and cashmere, she just wanted her wraparound, a way to entertain friends after Sunday services while enjoying all of God’s glory. “No one should be buying diamonds anyway,” I tell her. “There’s […]