Who is Joel K Clements?
He is accepted by bears the world over as one of them
Every time he plugs in a USB cable, it’s turned the right way
Joel K Clements’ mind is so powerful that when he thinks sad thoughts, flowers die
Every time Joel K Clements makes a phone call, he is the ninth caller and wins concert tickets
Once a year, he goes to Pamplona to chase the bulls
He wrote the novel Heart of Darkness under the pen name ‘Joseph Conrad’ and the pen year ‘1899’
When dolphins go on vacation they like to swim with Joel K Clements
He… what? No? Not buying it? Oh…
Fine.
Joel K Clements is an award-winning writer and performer; an Oregon native who began writing in 1992. He has contributed short fiction to publications like Funny Times and Primal Word, and his most recent short film, “Split Time,” was featured in several festivals in the US and Europe. The Times once tweeted that he was a humor writer of note. That was cool.
His varied background of jobs – including bartender, farmhand, submarine tour guide, bouncer, and touring stand-up comedian (during which he won the Oregon Comedy Competition) – has shaped a lot of his writing as well as his draw toward the ways we are pushed to define our lives by external forces.
One would also not be out of order to accuse Joel of being a little fixated on the nature of time.
For work, he teaches writing and film studies, as well as conducting seminars for teachers on innovative methods of teaching and assessing writing.
Joel K Clements currently lives in Bend, Oregon, with his wife and three kids. Three? That can’t be right. I have three kids? Holy hell.
He loves good conversation, the sound of laughter, whipped cream, sad songs at an uptempo beat, and trail running.
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