Bruce Clarke

Bruce Clarke practiced criminal law as a defense attorney in Washington, D.C., as a partner in the firm Clarke & Graae and as a staff attorney with the Public Defender Service (PDS) for the District of Columbia.

He later worked at the Federal Judicial Center, where he served as Director of its Education Division. While on sabbatical from the law, Clarke studied script analysis in New York with Stella Adler and began writing plays. His plays Bluesman and Fifteen Rounds with Jackson Pollock have been produced in D.C. and regionally. He is the recipient of a play wrighting grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, a play wrighting residency at the Edward Albee Foundation, and the Larry Neal Award for Dramatic Writing.

When not writing or spending time with his family, Clarke teaches a fiction workshop for Georgetown University's Prisons and Justice Initiative, serves on Ithaca College's Alumni Assn. Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and works as a consultant with the Argentina-based judicial education organization, La Academia de Intercambio y Estudios Judiciales.