Breena Clarke is the author of four novels, most recently, Alive Nearby, a gently ruminative epistolary novel. It joins Angels Make Their Hope Here, set in an imagined mixed-race community in 19th century New Jersey; Stand The Storm, set in Civil War era Washington, D.C. and Breena’s debut novel, River, Cross My Heart, an Oprah Book Club selection. Breena Clarke has been a member of the fiction faculty of The Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing program at The University of Southern Maine and is co-organizer of The Hobart Festival of Women Writers.