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Christopher Clark - Jo Barr

Christopher Clark is a 27-year-old British freelance journalist and writer living and working in Cape Town, South Africa.

A former Media and Writing student at the University of Cape Town, he specialises in alternative and adventure travel, travel reportage and current and international (particularly African) affairs. His work has been publsihed in online and print publications including Hackwriters, The World Today and the Cape Times. He also writes fictional prose and poetry. He is currently finishing two novels: a non-fiction book about the Congo entitled 'The Road to Muzenze' and a fictional novella set in Buenos Aires entitled 'What is Lost'.

Always an avid traveller, Christopher was born and raised in the green valleys of Devon, England. Having finished school at 18, he attained a TEFL certificate and moved to Argentina, teaching English for a year in the city of Mendoza near the foothills of the Andes before moving to Buenos Aires for a further 6 months.

From Buenos Aires, Christopher headed to Sydney, Australia where he spent a year helping to run a friend's restaurant and travelling the rest of the country whenever possible.

Since then he has continued to spend the majority of his time avoiding the cold English climate, living for some time in Kenya where he worked for a charity and first began to test his hand at writing. He has also travelled parts of South-East Asia and Central America as well as Southern, East and Central Africa. After a brief stint managing a bar in Central London and 6 months teaching part-time and writing part-time in Paris, he came back to Africa and finally settled down to study in Cape Town.

Having now finished his studies, he is currently writing full-time. When not writing he divides his time between wining and dining his French girlfriend as cheaply as possible, reading, surfing and diving in the Indian Ocean and playing squash and cricket for his local club.