RC Creative Writing alumna Anna Clark (2003) published an essay, “Michigan’s failures should inform a new national urban agenda,” in Crain’s Forum, in the October 25th issue of Crain’s Detroit Business.
Anna is a journalist, and has lived in Detroit since 2007. She is the author of The Poisoned City: Flint’s Water and the American Urban Tragedy (Picador, 2019), which won the Hillman Prize for Book Journalism and the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award.Her writing has appeared in New York Times, the Washington Post, Elle, the New Republic, Politico, the Columbia Journalism Review, the Boston Review, and Next City. She edited A Detroit Anthology, a Michigan Notable Book, and is a contributing editor at Waxwing Literary Journal. She has been a Fulbright fellow in Nairobi, Kenya, and she was a 2017 Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at U-M. More about Anna at her website.
