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Maxine Beneba Clarke (1979) is an Australian writer and slam poet, whose collection of short stories Foreign Soil won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2013 and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in 2015. She is a contributor to The Saturday Paper.

Clarke has a Bachelor of Creative Arts/Law from Wollongong University.

Works
Clarke's works include :
 * The Hate Race (2016), an autobiography
 * Carrying The World (2016), a collection of poetry
 * The Patchwork Bike (2016), a picture book illustrated by Van T. Rudd
 * Foreign Soil (2014), a collection of short stories