Terence Clarke is a novelist (Mercury House, Ballantine Books), a short-story writer (The Yale Review, The Antioch Review,The Chariton Review, Tampa Review, Catamaran, Kindle Singles and many others), a journalist (Substack, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, Huffington Post), and a translator of literature from Spanish to English. He is also Co-Founder and former Editorial Director at Astor & Lenox. "There has never really been a time when I haven't been writing. When I was a student, I was very influenced by the life styles of the Romantics, and went around with a manufactured scowl on my face, bearing the poetic weight of the world. It didn't hurt that I was living in San Francisco at the time, and could emulate the Beatniks I saw worrying publicly about their manuscripts in local cafés. As I began publishing my work, though, I discovered --more truthfully-- that I love the process of writing. The puzzle of telling a story. The searching for, and the creation, of a memorable character. The exploration of feeling, the fine pleasure of bringing a story to fruition. Writing's tough. But now, it is simply a joyful undertaking for me." Clarke still lives in San Francisco.