Joshua Clark received an Economics degree from Yale University, has served as a correspondent for National Public Radio, and was an editor for SCAT Magazine. His books have been translated into eleven languages and counting. He is also a Scottish Lord, bull rider, mountain climber, cannibal, gold miner, bear and alligator hunter, and the CEO of NightmareFootball.com where the lowest fantasy scores rules, owns BiggestBullies.com kennel (featuring some of the world’s largest pit bulls), and is an environmentalist who spends much of his time on his 100% off-grid house in southern Louisiana, harvesting rain water and solar power. He has been a blueberry farm manager, hardcore punk concert producer, bartender, filmmaker, and photographer.

Clark has contributed to over a dozen anthologies, including The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2007), The Best Of Lonely Planet Travel Writing (2000 – 2010), the bestseller State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America (Ecco)—in which he represented Louisiana—and New Orleans: What Can’t Be Lost. His work has also appeared in Wall Street Journal, Oxford American, Consumer Affairs, Salon.com, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Poets & Writers, Louisiana Literature, Arkansas Delta Review, New Orleans Review, and Time Out: New York among many others.

Current projects include Live & Love: The Survival Guide to Cohabitation; The Age of the Refugee (nonfiction about refugees generally, with a focus on extensive interviews done in East Africa); ECO novel and screenplay (about environmental terrorism); and a novel called Open a Time.