Eros-Alegra Clarke

A California native, Alegra is now living in New Zealand raising her three children and very big dog. A passionate surfer, writer, and masters student at the University of Waikato, Alegra won the Writer’s Digest 76th Annual Writing Competition Grand Prize for her memoir “Salamander Prayer.” Her writing has since appeared in the Waikato Times, Writer’s Digest 4th Annual Poetry Awards, Flash Fiction 40, and the literary journal Bitter Oleander. She is working on her first novel, Razing Eden, under the mentorship of her literary agent. Alegra contributes to Maria Schneider’s website resource for writers, editorunleashed.com and can be found blogging about life, writing, and everything in between at: alegra22.wordpress.com.