Jo Clark is a writer from Virginia and a third-year MFA candidate at Syracuse. Her work can be found in Sundog Lit, Hooligan Magazine, Whale Road Review, Volume, and elsewhere. She is a 2024 grant recipient from the Elizabeth George Foundation and was selected as the artist in residence at Shenandoah National Park for August 2024. She was a finalist for the Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginian Poets, and received the 2024 Leonard Brown Prize. Before coming to Syracuse, she graduated from the University of Virginia. If you’d like to learn more about her work, please visit joclarkwriter.com.