Jack Clinton lives in Red Lodge, Montana, and works as a Spanish teacher. Clinton spent most of his adult life in Wyoming, working as kitchen help, laborer, carpenter, and mountain guide. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degree in Spanish at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie. Clayton's freelance environmental news articles appeared in the Caspar Star Tribune and in diverse periodicals such as High Country News, Western Horseman, E-magazine, Rock and Ice, and Climbing. During his years as a university student he won the Neltje Blanchan award for fiction. After a long hiatus from writing to engage in raising his daughter, Emma, he has returned to writing and produced a new novel, Clovis, a fictional composite of many of the stories and people who filled those Wyoming decades.