Breena Clarke and Amy Newmark

Biography of Breena Clarke and Amy Newmark

Amy Newmark is author, editor-in-chief, and publisher of the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series.

Breena Clarke is a Black scholar and award-winning novelist. Her debut novel River, Cross My Heart was a New York Times bestseller and an Oprah’s Book Club selection. She also wrote Stand the Storm and Angels Make Their Hope Here. She is co-organizer of the Hobart Book Village Festival of Women Writers and is on the faculty of the Stonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.


One Book by Breena Clarke and Amy Newmark