Cj Clark

Cj Clark was raised and educated in Europe. She has traveled with creative purpose throughout the United States and Canada and is currently settled near Austin, Texas with her clan of rescued dogs and cats. She is a magical realism artist, a poet, animal advocate, and novelist.

Novels include The Permanence of Waves, When Color Fades (LangMarc Publishing), Cien Pamieci (Proszynskii S-ka Media translation of When Color Fades) and Inviting the Moon to Supper (Three Furies Press). Her poetry has been published in Harbinger Asylum editions.

Inviting the Moon to Supper

magical realism fiction

Somewhere between blurred boundaries of real and imagined worlds, a newly orphaned girl loses her beloved dog while searching for her magician grandfather. But her search extends too far into a land where time is frozen and she is forced to navigate a ruthless haunt of Norse mythological outcasts.

​Unless she accepts help from a misanthropic mask maker and Crazy Dog Man-the town misfit, she too is in danger of vanishing.

When Color Fades

literary fiction

When Color Fades is a stirring look into the anatomy of memory loss and the frailty of misconstrued relationships. It untangles hard truth with gentle irony as it explores a mother and daughter's turbulent pursuit of closure. When Annabelle's husband dies unexpectedly, she tears up a letter he wrote alerting their daughter Lily of Annabelle's diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer's Disease. Annabelle becomes obsessed about destroying the contents of a red box where she once hid her darkest childhood memories.

The Permanence of Waves

fiction fable

A lyrical excursion into a fabled land of blue water stones,The Permanence of Waves is an interweaving of two tales, an enduring story of the lessons nature tries to teach us.

Determined to carry out her mother's last wishes to care for her aging grandfather, Olive is disturbed by what she interprets as his unwillingness to accept her support-until she discovers a secret fable he has written for his great granddaughter. Within the story's pages, Olive learns to face her own rigidity and let go of what was never truly hers.