EMILY R CLARK is a published writer from Tennessee and author of a new poetry collection, Art Triumphant. She’s currently on a multi-state tour promoting her book. She has performed and offered writing workshops in over a dozen venues in five states including The Victory Theatre and Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles, SoHo in Santa Barbara and The Aspen Poets’ Society in Aspen, Colorado. Her poems have appeared in The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, A! Magazine for the Arts, Askew Poetry Journal, Ventura’s 40 Around 40ish, Sketches of Home, Aspen Daily News, Spectrum and will soon appear in Lavender Review. Her articles have appeared in The Acorn Newspapers of Camarillo and Simi Valley and The VCReporter.  She’s worked as a writer on several commercial film projects such as: Voodoo Kitchen with Director James P. Lay, (Fight Club, Jeepers Creepers, Meet Joe Black)  “This is the Frequency” with Double-Emmy Award winning screenwriter Simon Moore (Traffic, The Quick and the Dead, Gulliver's Travels), Inside the Grace, Missing Lunch, PinkCity, featuring Kether Donohue (You're the Worst, Grease Live!, Pitch Perfect.) Superstitious Man, (Ivana Jovanovic) The Hunt, and Red Bull Gives Wings. Emily teaches poetry workshops in Southern California to elementary, middle, and high school students through California Poets in the Schools and published a collection of her student’s poetry called Tasty Little Samples in 2016.