Clayton Adam Clark lives in Saint Louis, his hometown, where he works as a public health researcher and mental health counselor. His debut poetry collection, A Finitude of Skin, won the 2017 Moon City Poetry Award and was published by Moon City Press in November 2018. He is a recipient of an Artist Support Grant from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, and his poems have recently appeared in Poetry Daily, Shenandoah, Portland Review Online, Salamander, and elsewhere. He earned the MFA in creative writing at Ohio State University and a master’s in clinical mental health counseling at University of Missouri-St. Louis.