Jaime Clarke
American writer
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| Intro | American writer | |||||||||
| Places | United States of America | |||||||||
| is | Writer Novelist | |||||||||
| Work field | Literature | |||||||||
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| Birth | 15 April 1971, Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana, USA | |||||||||
| Age | 53 years | |||||||||
| Star sign | Aries | |||||||||
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Jaime Clarke (born 1971) is an American novelist and editor. He is a founding editor of the literary journal Post Road Magazine and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.
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Clarke was born in Kalispell, MT, but grew up in Phoenix, AZ, attending Brophy College Preparatory and Arizona State University before graduating with a creative writing degree from the University of Arizona. He also holds an MFA in creative writing from Bennington College.
Out of high school, Clarke worked as a runner for financier Charles Keating. He then earned degrees at the University of Arizona and Bennington College before moving to New York City, where he worked at the Harold Ober Associates literary agency.
Clarke has taught creative writing at the University of Massachusetts in Boston and Emerson College.