Ann D. Clark, PhD, is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina and a graduate of New York State University. Her first novel, The Memory Garden, received a 1994 PEN Center USA West Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is also the author of a memoir, The Benevolent Beauty: A Daughter's Story of Loving and Losing My Mother, which received a PEN Center USA West Award
Her most recent books are The Last Time I Saw You: A Daughter's Story of Loss, Reentry, and Healing from the Other Side and two novels for young adults: The Girl Who Died Twice and The Girl Who Fell from the Sky. She is at work on a second novel for young adults.
If you don't know where you are going, you will surely arrive there.Ann D. Clark
Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part ofliving. Today, we are alive–not anesthetized, not sedated, not passedout. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change. Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice.Ann D. Clark
