﷯ Kelly Clark is the author of the historical novel, CANAL and the award-winning short, Resurrection. She has been featured in the North Carolina’s Writer’s Hard Times Anthology and is a recipient of Antioch University’s Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Currently she is hard at work on her upcoming novel, Duffy’s Cut: Mile 59, a historical novel based on the 1832 true-story of 57 Irishmen and their harrowing experience in America. The Story behind the Story I grew up in a small, rural area of Ohio in a little town called Port Jefferson. A former boom town, Port Jefferson sat along the 1830's canal route off of the Miami River. Growing up, my little town felt like a ghost town, complete with a boarded up hotel and dance hall, as well as the old canal route, long since dried up. The mystery and spirit of the past surrounded me throughout my childhood and made my imagination reel. So you could say that the ghosts of times-gone-by have always held a fascination. Who were the people here? How did they live? What were their struggles? I have always wondered about the remnants of the past and these wonderings fuel and inspire me still: the stories, the ghosts and the imaginings that all bump up and exist – in some shape or form - against our modern world today. 
 Now, all grown-up, I'm trading out my own past for a new life crafting stories. Stories inspired by true-life events and, in many cases, real-life people and in those broken spaces where facts no longer exist, the world of curiosity and fiction emerges. Let's see where story takes us. Thanks for stopping by!
 “We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mobius strip, until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.” 
 ― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

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