Clinton Parks is a Washington, DC-based freelance science writer who has been published in AAAS, the Society for Neuroscience, Undark and the American Physical Society, among others.

From November 2003 through April 2006, Parks served as staff writer of AAAS’ Minority Scientists Network, the online network for current and prospective minority scientists. From October 2006 through May 2015, he served as a staff writer and web producer for the trade publication SpaceNews.

He has written features, profiles and reports for AAAS’ Minority Scientists Network; written and edited articles for AAAS’ Science Careers; developed columns for SpaceNews’ “This Week in Space History”; and written case studies of the work the strategic communications firm BrandEvolve.

He is also a novelist, who has worked with esteemed novelist and classicist Carolivia Herron.  He has finished one novel, Broken Wonder, which he is trying to find representation, and currently writing a second, Dem Dougla Guhls.