Clark goes to town with her stories

Cynthia Clark’s first novel circled endlessly in her head for a couple of decades before she finally decided it was time to set it free. “When I got the guts to sit down and write it, I discovered that I was visualizing it like a movie. While typing I could see characters blink their eyes, turn their heads or reach down,” says Clark, education program assistant in the Department of Linguistics at her alma mater, the University of Colorado Boulder.