Joshua Clark

Joshua Clark is the author of Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in its Disaster Zone, a 2008 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award. He runs the KARES writers relief fund and covered New Orleans in the hurricane’s aftermath for Salon.com and National Public Radio. Clark, the founder of Light of New Orleans Publishing, has edited such books as French Quarter Fiction (2003 regional Book of the Year), the best-selling Southern Fried Divorce, and others, including most recently Louisiana: In Words, an anthology of 120 Louisiana writers depicting a day in the life of our state. He contributes to many publications including The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Lonely Planet anthologies, Consumer Affairs, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Poets & Writers, Louisiana Literature, Time Out: New York, and was editor for SCAT Magazine. He proudly serves on the executive boards of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the Kohlmeyer Circle of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.