[1] Between 2007 and 2017 she produced the Literature Programme at Cove Park, Scotland's International Artist Residency Centre, near Helensburgh.
[1] She has held a variety of other jobs to support her writing, including a period as a teacher of English in Hungary, working in publishing at Oxford University Press,[5] and as a zookeeper at Edinburgh Zoo.
[11] In 2017, Clark contributed to a BBC2 documentary on Auden's life, directed by BAFTA winning Adam Low[12] and wrote a piece for the Guardian on childbirth.
[14] Writing in the Guardian, Liz Jensen placed Clark's 'unsettling and immersive' second novel Tiger in a vanguard of books along with Laline Paull's The Bees and Richard Powers's The Overstory which approach non-human life in new ways.
[15] Allan Massie in The Scotsman described it as 'magnificent and terrifying', adding that the novel 'will doubtless sell very well – and deservedly so'[16] To research the novel Clark undertook a tiger tracking expedition to the remote Russian taiga.