Stephan Eirik Clark

Stephan Eirik Clark is the author of the short story collection VLADIMIR'S MUSTACHE (Russian Life Books), a finalist for the 2013 Minnesota Book Award, and the novel SWEETNESS #9 (Little, Brown), which was featured on The Colbert Report, NPR's "Fresh Air with Terry Gross" and named one of the best books of 2014 by the editors of Amazon Canada. A former member of USC Film School’s filmic writing division, Clark had a screenwriting manager while pursuing his Ph.D. at USC and worked on the adaptation of his novel for Olympus Pictures. More recently, he wrote, directed, and edited his first short film, OLD MEDIA STUDIES. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota and teaches fiction and screenwriting at Augsburg University, where he directs the low-residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.