All This Want (and I Can't Get None)

“A sharp, wily, finely etched debut so bittersweet you can taste it.”—Jami Attenberg, author of A Reason to See You Again

“Young Black girls, women, and nonbinary people make up the cast of characters in this short fiction collection spanning stories in and around a small working-class neighborhood outside of NYC … T. Clark is a wonderful writer, and I think we can expect a lot of humor and heart here.”—Autostraddle

“I may not look like the girls in this collection, but I needed this. The world needs T Clark’s writing. Clark peels back the layers of their characters, making them dazzle. Each story is as riotous as it is endearing.”—Debutiful

“The collection I’ve been praying for. One that keeps it real, lets people be hot, bothered, messy, unrelieved, funny, and profound. In All This Want (and I Can’t Get None), Clark trades in the rose-colored glasses for something more authentic: first rate stories of young men and women coming to epiphanies in their pursuit of a warm body to kiss.”—Sidik Fofana, Stories From the Tenants Downstairs

“Clark’s work is lush, complex, a little bit sexy … Everything you’d want from fiction concerned with the humanness and paradox of being alive.”—Dantiel W. Moniz, author of Milk Blood Heat

“All This Want (and I Can’t Get None) is an ode to Black girlhood in all its forms, each story its own messy, hilarious, profound illustration of desire, friendship, the masks we put on, and the ways we learn to love. T Clark has written a short story collection for the ages: sharp, layered, and abundant with characters so easy to know and love it feels impossible that the next narrator can be equally charming, complex, and inspired; and yet, Clark delivers story after story of yearning girls and women and their relentlessly relatable worlds, expertly ushering us into each story only to long for them as soon as they’re over.”—Leila Mottley, author of The Girls Who Grew Big

“Smart, thoughtful, and so goddamn funny, T Clark’s All This Want (and I Can’t Get None) is a treasure trove of a collection. Looking into these stories felt akin to pressing your eye against the viewsight of a kaleidoscope: every turn of the page brought some fresh new delight. What a stunner.”—Kristen N. Arnett, author of Mostly Dead Things

“In All This Want (and I Can’t Get None), Clark’s prose is unflinching, raw, and haunting. These stories center characters too often sidelined, exposing the fragile, combustible space between who they are and who they might become.”—LaToya Watkins, author of Holler, Child

“Stories about Black girls and young women—focused and floundering, hungry and apathetic, searching and lost. The protagonists in Clark’s short stories seem to yearn for desire itself—to lunge after it and to be left, somehow, with fistfuls of nothing but air … Achingly beautiful stories full of wit, intelligence, and raw immediacy.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

T Clark is from Westchester County, New York. They received BAs in sociology and English from Rutgers University and an MFA in fiction from Indiana University. They were the recipient of a Writer in the World fellowship in Nepal, a Ross Lockridge Jr. Award in Fiction, a Newport News Public Library short story award, and a Mitchell Adelman Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing.

They have received support and fellowships from the Omi International Arts Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Their fiction has appeared in Joyland, The Kenyon Review, American Short Fiction, The Offing, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. They teach and write in New Orleans.

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