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Spring 2026 Memoir Launch

Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon Girl  Hypatia Press Spring 2026!

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Poetry by Maureen Clark

A Country Without You

A Country Without You has been accepted for publication by BCC Press in 2028

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New Poetry

Packing for the Eclipse

Maureen Clark

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Dark Time of the Confusions

My third poetry manuscript Dark Time of the Confusions (Living in the Charnel House) was named a runner-up in the Inlandia Institute: Hillary Gravendyk Prize  

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Creative Journey

  • Passionate attention and a love of language are my rules for writing. Awareness of the world around me, in all its detail, and the power of words to capture those details are the writing tools I use the most.

2025 Publications

  • Elephant Bones: The Hemlock Journal     file:///C:/Users/maure/Downloads/winter-issue-december-2024-2.pdf    
  • Poets at 7000 Feet and Origami of Vanishing: Weber: Journal of the Contemporary West
  • Let's Say: Sonic Boom      https://sonicboomjournal.wixsite.com/sonicboom/current-issue    
  • My Husband Texting:  Streetlight Magazine      https://streetlightmag.com/2025/04/11/my-husband-texting-by-maureen-clark/    
  • Everything Was Significant: Sugarhouse Review
  • Kiwis: The Fourth River
  • First Egg and Witch Hunt: The Common Ground Review      https://www.cgreview.org/magazine/the-first-egg    
  • The Last Witch of Ireland: Moonday Magazine
  • Post and Rail Fence: Santa Clara Review      https://www.sierranevadareview.com/maureen-clark-2025    
  • Antelope Island: Southern Quill
  • Ghosts in my Camera: Last Leaves Magazine
  • Tiding of Magpies and Ask the Right Questions: Slipstream Press
  • We Arrive; Stone Walls and Mermaids Holding up the House: Dodging the Rain      https://dodgingtherain.com/2025/08/15/maureen-clark-mermaids-in-the-basement/   
  • Bohemia and Breaching Moon: Red Rock Review
  • Resolution: Indefinite Space
  • Catacomb Saints: Sierra Nevada Review https://www.sierranevadareview.com/maureen-clark-2025
  • Out of Step: Westchester Review
  • Off Kilter: Naugatuck River Review
  • The Garden You Made: Nomad
  • Before Autumnal Equinox:  Abraxas Review       https://www.abraxasreview.org/poetry-maureen-clark     
  • Sisters and It Matters: Sky Island Journal; https://www.skyislandjournal.com/issues#/issue-33-fall-2025/
  • Spun Air: Grey Sparrow https://grey-sparrow-press.com/202546-air-spun-maureen-clark/
  • Somewhere in Sweden, Witches in Ghana and Who Gets Paid: Gently Mad Magazine
  • Water's Edge: Paddock Review  https://paddockreview.com/2025/09/08/a-poem-by-maureen-clark/ 
  • Motherhood: Tough Poets Review
  • It Won't Take Long: Crayfish Magazine https://www.crayfishmag.com/maureen-clark-it-wont-take-long
  •  The Work of Dying, I am Here, Alive Together and Joy in the Room: Soul Forte https://instituteforspiritualpoetry.com/issue-14#2d276ead-b6bb-41f7-b872-efe371dc5e23
  •  Currency:  Streetlight Magazine
  • Sixth Grade, If You Don't Come and Talking to Stars: Thieving Magpie      https://thievingmagpie.org/maureen-clark-3-poems-2/    
  • Trans Day of Visibility: Straylight Literary Magazine
  • Any Day Now: The Quarter(ly) Press
  • Let me be Wrong: Third Wednesday Magazine
  • Other Kingdoms: Twin Bird Review https://www.twinbirdreview.com/32---p---clark.html
  • Undoing Their Work: Lotus-Eater
  • Here and Not Here: Sheila-Na-Gig
  • Blame, The Well Tower, Two Witch Families:  Raven's Perch       https://theravensperch.com/blame-by-maureen-clark/  
  • Tea Leaves: Common Ground Review 
  • More Than an Orphan: Alternate Route
  • Let's Say: Nomad https://www.the-nomad.org/issue-4-breakthroughs/let's-say/maureen-clark 
  • The Garden You Made: Nomad https://www.the-nomad.org/issue-4-breakthroughs/the-garden-you-made/maureen-clark  




Poetry Award 2024

Best Poetry Book 2024: American Association of Mormon Letters 


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Maureen is available for readings, workshops. Please contact her at maureenrclark@gmail.com

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