He has published two books of poems, Dancing on Canaan's Ruins (Eternal Delight Prod., 1997) and Handiwork (St. Andrews College Press, 1998), and has edited Fable in the Blood: The Selected Poems of Byron Herbert Reece (The University of Georgia Press, 2002). In June of 2002 his first full-length play, The Girl with the Faraway Eye, was given a public staged reading at The Portland Actors Conservatory Theatre, Portland, OR. A CD of poems and Appalachian folk music, Buried Land, was released in 2003. He is presently co-editing, with Susan Underwood of Carson-Newman College, an anthology of modern Appalachian poetry, to be published by The University of Georgia Press. His stories and poems have appeared in numerous anthologies and in journals and magazines such as The Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Negative Capability, Asheville Poetry Review, Appalachian Heritage, Now and Then, Charleston Magazine, CrossRoads: A Journal of Southern Culture and Rolling Stone.
Clark has taught at the University of Georgia, where he directed the creative writing program, at Auburn University, and at Christian Brothers College. He presently lives in Wilson, North Carolina, where he is professor of English and writer-in-residence at Barton College, founder and director of The Barton College Creative Writing Symposium, and an editor of Crucible. His readings often include music and songs performed on the guitar, banjo, autoharp, and mountain dulcimer.