Roy Peter Clark is vice president and senior scholar at the Poynter Institute. He has taught writing at every level-to school-children and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors-for more than 30 years, and has spoken about the craft of writing on The Oprah Winfrey Show, NPR, and Today; at conferences from Singapore to Brazil; and at news organizations from The New York Times to the Sowetan in South Africa. A writer who teaches, and a teacher who writes, he has authored and edited fourteen books about writing and journalism.