CLARK, Roger Y. 1960-

PERSONAL: Born February 8, 1960, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; son of William Drury (a lawyer) and Velma Isabel (a health ministry director; maiden name, Young) Clark; married Ruby Ann Mah (a recruitment officer), May 5, 1984. Ethnicity: "Scots-English." Education: University of Calgary, B.A. (with honors), M.A., 1984; University of British Columbia, Ph.D., 1996. Politics: "Liberal." Religion: "Agnostic."

ADDRESSES: Home—1566 W. 13th Ave., Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 2G4, Canada. Office—Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave., New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 5B2, Canada. E-mail—ryoclark@shaw.ca.

CAREER: Writer. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, instructor, 1996–2000; Douglas College, New Westminster, British Columbia, instructor, 2000–04.

WRITINGS:

Stranger Gods: Salman Rushdie's Other Worlds, McGill-Queens University Press (Ithaca, NY), 2001.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A fictional travel fantasy and a book of travel poems set in China, Southeast Asia, India, Europe, Canada, and Latin America.

SIDELIGHTS: Roger Y. Clark told CA: "In criticism or fiction I write to explore the idiosyncratic cultural complexity of the postcolonial, postmodern individual. I watch with horror what certain forms of greed and fanaticism do to our world, and I see if something of beauty, humor, even spirituality can be saved from the general mess. I think a tragic vision is a realistic one, yet wisdom urges us to strive toward the ideal. In my upcoming fiction and poetry I hope to infuse the darkness of realism with the regenerative power of humor and idealism."