Biography
George Makana Clark spent his first seventeen years in the eastern highlands of Rhodesia. He studied at Florida Atlanta University, and has worked in South Africa, the Caribbean, South America, South Florida, and Europe in a variety of occupations including musician and bush guide. After three years in the U.S. Army stationed in Germany, he earned his MA and PhD in English at Florida State University. He first began writing creatively when he was at graduate school in his early thirties and has since become a prize-winning short story writer, winning an O. Henry Award, receiving an Honourable Mention in the Pushcart Prize, and being short-listed for the Caine Prize, among other accolades. He is widely published in journals like Zoetrope, Glimmer Train, Tin House, and Black Warrior Review and his short story collection THE SMALL BEES' HONEY was published in the US by White Pine Press (1997)
He now teaches Fiction Writing, African literature, and Post Colonial Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is writing a new novel TREE OF DIAMOND.
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