Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing

Breena Clarke (Fiction) is the author of three historical novels. Her debut novel, River, Cross My Heart (1999) was an October 1999 Oprah Book Club selection. Clarke's critically reviewed second novel, Stand the Storm, is set in mid-19th century Washington, D.C. Her most recent novel, Angels Make Their Hope Here, is set in an imagined tri-racial community in the highlands of New Jersey. She is a graduate (B.F.A.) of Howard University. Breena Clarke is co-author with Glenda Dickerson of the play Remembering Aunt Jemina: A Menstrual Show, anthologized in Contemporary Plays by Women of Color and Colored Contradictions, An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays. Her short fiction is included in Black Silk, A Collection of African American Erotica, and Street Lights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience. Breena Clarke is an advisor to the board of A Room of Her Own Foundation and has offered writing workshops at AROHO retreats at Ghost Ranch in 2003, 2005 and 2011. She is co-organizer of the Hobart Book Village Festival of Women Writers now in its third year.