Bio
Jay Clark is a wilderness traveler, essayist, and poet. Their latest backcountry projects include solo hiking 560 miles of the Arizona Trail and leading backpacking courses with the National Outdoor Leadership School. Their writing projects include Event Horizon, a chapbook funded by the Maine Space Grant Consortium exploring love through the lens of cosmology and astrophysics; and Enough Time, a short essay collection about relationship with and within Utah’s slickrock canyon country.
Jay’s recent work focuses on the intense experiential education of backcountry living and what it reveals about our responsibilities to ourselves, each other, and the land.
Jay holds a Bachelor of Arts in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic. They are currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University.