 He became the director of the graduate writing program at LSU at the age of 29, and he died of liver and colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 31.His friends and fellow authors, Michael Griffith and Josh Russell, are responsible for continued efforts to bring his work to print.Clark's fiction has appeared in "The Alaska Quarterly Review", "Cream City Review", "Paragraph", "Gulf Coast", "One Story", and "Flyway".