Jacob Clark is an aerospace engineer turned writer. Raised outside Wichita, Kansas, he studied mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Kansas and later worked on mission design and CubeSat navigation at a Southern California research lab. In the late 2010s he relocated to the Pacific Northwest, consulting for a solar-sail startup and teaching night courses in orbital mechanics. His short fiction has appeared in regional magazines and small online journals; his work often merges hands-on engineering with quiet, human stakes. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he repairs old bikes and flies homemade kites along the Columbia River.
