Trevor Clark

Trevor Clark (born 1955) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.

Biography
Clark was born and raised in Toronto. He hitchhiked to San Francisco at 17, later dropped out of a journalism program, worked around Alberta for a year, and hitchhiked twice more through the USA before returning to school. He graduated from York University with a B.A. in English in 1978.

He married Professor Diana Cooper-Clark in 1979, and took the photographs in her two books of interviews with writers, as well as having had photos published in Now and The Globe and Mail. They later divorced, and have a daughter.

His first work of fiction, Born To Lose, (a novella and short stories,) was published in 1989. Clark, who also worked as a portrait photographer, had photographs published in a biography about crime novelist Ross Macdonald in 1999. In addition he was an assistant editor for a trade paper, a program caption editor, (editing TV dialogue for the hearing-impaired,) and managed a bookstore.

In 2003 he married Maria Gomes, a Brazilian. They had an on and off relationship over the years, including a period in London where he lived from 2004–2008, working as a home entertainment coordinator for a Canadian TV movie production company. They divorced in 2011.

Upon returning to Canada he moved to Vancouver, where two novels, Dragging The River and Love On The Killing Floor, as well as a collection of short stories, Escape and Other Stories, were published by Now Or Never Publishing, 2009, 2010, and 2012, respectively. In 2014 they will be publishing his novel Hair-Trigger.

Fiction

 * 1989: Born To Lose, ECW Press, Toronto
 * 2009: Dragging The River, Now Or Never Publishing, Vancouver
 * 2010: Love On The Killing Floor, Now Or Never Publishing, Vancouver
 * 2012: Escape and Other Stories, Now Or Never Publishing, Vancouver
 * 2014: Hair-Trigger, Now Or Never Publishing, Vancouver

Photography

 * 1983: Designs of Darkness: Interviews With Detective Novelists, by Diana Cooper-Clark, (Bowling Green University Popular Press.)
 * 1986: Interviews With Contemporary Novelists, by Diana Cooper-Clark, (Macmillan/ St. Martin’s Press.)
 * 1999: Ross Macdonald: A Biography, by Tom Nolan, (Scribner’s.)