Wilma Clark

From her earliest years, Wilma Clark was fascinated by the written word and pored over copious quantities of books as a child. Later, when she learned to read, her enjoyment was much enhanced!
   Having committed all the words in the English dictionary to memory, she decided to broaden her horizons and so went off to university to study French and Russian – she could read more books that way.
   As an added bonus, her linguistic horizons expanded physically as well as mentally and, combining study with travel, she took off for Metz, St Petersburg, Kiev and, basically, after that, she just forgot to get off the bus, graduating not so much the expected ‘linguist-hoping-to-be-a-spy’ as more of a country-bagging ‘jack-of-all-trades’.
   It turned out to be a fun result for Wilma as, led quite literally by her linguistic tongue, she danced with tarantulas in a jungle in Mexico, tangoed with a wee bit of nuclear frisson in Kiev (post-Chernobyl), faced death-inducing camel spiders in Kazakstan, a wee bit of tsunami in Baku – just a few highlights amongst her dalliances in more peaceful corners of the world such as Wellington, Lisbon, Rome, Boston, etc. Her working days have encompassed anything and everything from cabbage-picking and gardening to the rather more sedate fields of translation and law ( she considers a salary a helpful addition to her wardrobe on occasion).
   And so we come to writing. Yes, she loves it, and has done ever since she was able to hold a pencil the right way up. Poems, short stories, journalling, websites, the odd article or two – and last but not least, a novel – “Jahred & The Magi” published by BeWrite Books.

Contact Wilma: wilmaclark@bewrite.net