about
“All art holds the knowledge that we’re both living and dying at the same time.”
Constance Clark is a poet, photographer, and former educator based in New Jersey. Her work explores eco-poetics, microseasonal observation, and the intersection of lyric memory and neural patterning—examining how sustained awareness reframes lived experience.
While literature was a constant throughout her life, Clark began writing her own work in 2022 following a long career in education. Her craft was deeply informed by her years of teaching American and Advanced Placement Literature, exploring canonical and contemporary masters alongside her students. In 2023, she attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, further immersing herself in the craft and community of contemporary poetry.
Her debut published poem, “Sticks & Stones,” appeared in the Moonstone Press Sylvia Plath Remembrance collection in 2023, followed shortly by “The Cliffs of Slieve League in November,” an Ireland-inspired piece published in Litbreak Magazine. Her work has since appeared or is forthcoming in The Hong Kong Review, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Wild Roof Journal, Hawk & Whippoorwill, The Dewdrop, Vita Poetica, Right Hand Pointing, and Jerry Jazz Musician, among others. She is currently working on her second poetry collection.
Clark began her career as a magazine editor in New York City and later owned a learning center franchise before turning to education. She went on to teach and serve as English Department Chair at the Academies at Englewood and Dwight Morrow High School. She holds a Master’s degree in Journalism, a Bachelor of Arts in English, state certifications in teaching and supervision, and a certification in yoga instruction.
Today, she lives close to her children and grandchildren. She finds that daily immersion in the outdoors does more than offer quiet—it recalibrates perception. Her close attention to the natural world sustains a belief in poetry as an essential source of solace and perspective in an accelerating world.
