Petra Clark

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Special Collections Librarian, former/forever Victorianist (Aestheticism & periodicals), and inveterate cat documentarian. Probably haunting the rare books stacks or stress baking. She/her

A gray cat lies on his side on a gray and blue bedspread, his front paws stretched out in front of him.
Screenshot of a Facebook post from 5 years ago today with two photographs of the same fluffy black cat side by side. The first image, labeled "Dr. Jekyll," shows the cat lying sweetly in a lime green laundry basket. In the second, titled "Mr. Hyde," the cat thrashes around in the basket so that his entire body is blurred and his eyes appear as two swoops of light.
A hand holding a violet pencil rests on a mostly unfinished coloring book page (from a Buffy the Vampire Slayer coloring book) while a fluffy black cat sits on the other page, snoozing.
A glass containing a red wine drink with lots of ice cubes and a lemon wheel sits on a coaster next to a bright yellow hardback book with the phrase "YOU WILL NOT BREAK ME" stamped on the cover in pink foil.
A black swallowtail butterfly photographed in profile drinks from vivid red and yellow flowers.
A sunny exoanse of water in front of a rounded waterfall framed by trees.
A lone Canada goose stands at the peak of a brown roof, silhouetted again a pale gray sky.
Two women sit in chairs on a stage between two mini trees, talking animatedly.
A copy of Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace sits on table in front of a Moomin mug full of black tea and floral plate with two macarons on it, one raspberry and one pistachio.
Overhead shot of a fluffy black cat on someone's lap. He nestles against them and gazes upwards with big yellow eyes.
A fluffy black cat lounges on a person's lap, ensconced on blankets.
A bound manuscript with pawprints left by a 15th-century cat walking across the drying ink on the page.
A 15th century manuscript page with a wide, beautifully decorated border featuring vivid flowers, fruits, a dog playing a trumpet, and a cat playing a keyboard.
A fluffy black cat sits on a tv stand facing a large tv which displays a bright red explosion.
A Christmas tree decorated with lit candles and old-fashioned tinsel sits in the corner of a dimly lit room lined with bookshelves.
A poster in a standee reads "Jane Austen Now: A Sarurday Symposium" and features a portrait of Austen next to a stack of books.
Closeup of a theatre program for And Then There Were None featuring the silhouette of a hanging woman and a spooky house. Red velvet theatre seating a d a stahe made to took like a fancy living room is visible in the background.
Two large orange flowers with many spiky petals sit in circles at the top of a calendar page otherwise decorated in grays and black: a frame of gray leaves, buds, and decorative borders surround the grid, with snail shells lined up in the last column.
A calendar page with a thick border comprised of dark blue grape leaves and vines, and lighter blue grape bunches touched with pale yellow.
A flat glass display case containing a selection of books, ranging from the seventeenth century to roughly contemporary.
A calendar page for September is framed by silvery fern-like leaves and golden yellow button-shaped flowers. A yellow and white butterfly sits near the bottom of the frame.
A gray cat in a raised cat bed and a black cat on the arm of a chair sit facing away from the viewer and looking out a sunny windoe at tall sunflowers.
A calendar page for August features a spare grid design decorated with light green plants. They have clover-like leaves and yellow buds. At the top are two stylized white and yellow butterflies.
A skinny black cat on a porch stares at the viewer from the other a glass door, looking somewhat forlorn.
A fluffy black cat lies on a green velvet sofa surrounded by blankets and pillows. He looks alert but cozy.
A calendar page for July is topped with three white lilies, whose stems and leaves take up most of the border, with fish, plants, and other small details appearing between them.
"Vesuvius in Eruption" watercolor by Turner at the Yale Center for British Art. The painting is rendered in luminous oranges, browns, and blues, the center of the eruption bright with heat.
A fluffy black cat sits on a white blanket on someone's lap, his eyes closed in contentment.
A black and white paper poster is pasted above a security sign. It features a black cat and a tabby cat snuggling together on a cat bed and reads "all cats are beautiful."
A large white room contains several antique and vintage printing presses.
Mercado de San Miguel: The crowded interior of a bright, high-ceilinged market hall.
A green valley is spread between rocky foothills, half shrouded in fog.
A dim room with bright yellow walls and a wet floor houses a row of large wood barrels.
Two white and brown-speckled baby birds huddle together on the ground next to a wooden fence, facing away from the viewer.
Interior of an old Gothic style church with large 20th century canvases hung on the walls. The paintings depict scenes related to Basque history and are rendered in shades of yellow and black.
View of a curved bay filled with boats and lined by yellow sand beach and a city beyond.
A table covered in a green tablecloth bears a large basket of crusty white bread, two plates of fish in oil (tuna and anchovies), and a line of glasses with white wine.
A pedestrian street lined eith old white and tan buildings leads to a baroque chapel at the end.
A field of bright red flowers shot from a fast car.
Three black and white storks stand in turquoise water surrounded by gray trees and black climbing vines. Above them is a calendar for June with moon phases along the sides. Some orange berries match the beaks and legs of the birds.
A teen girl leans against a dark wood door set in a stone wall. The adjacent wall is decorated with a swirling green and cream leaf-patterned wallpaper, long red curtains, and an Art Deco wardrobe.
Two women and a man observe a third woman preparing a dish in a restaurant kitchen. The wall behind the man is decorated with a fruit and floral wallpaper in shades of red, yellow, green, and pale blue.
A rectangular frame with the days of the month of May with tall rose trees on either side. At the bottom are four children and two caterpillars. The design is rendered in bright orange, blue, green, and turquoise.
A layout of four copies of an old book titled "The Girl Graduate: Her Own Book." Three have beige paper covers with gold details while one has a purple suede cover stamped with gold and black.
A hand holds up a black, purple, and white book titled Slayers: Every One of Us with two women holding stakes on the cover.
A calendar page for April with an illustrated border featuring bright green, blue, yellow, and orange ovals and other shapes, possibly denoting gems or stained glass.
A fluffy black cat sits on a circular cat scratcher in a sunlit living room.
Screenshot of the search results for "Petra Clark" in the Atlantic's Search for an author in LibGen tool, which indicates that two of my academic articles were included in the Library Genesis data set.
A calendar page with a wide border that contains a pair of snakes framing an improbably-shaped stork. Other elements include spiky blossoms and snail shells.
A fluffy black cat and a gray cat sit next to each other on a gray striped blanket with a yellow floral blanket draped on the back of the couch behind them.
A woman lies in bed on her phone with a bedside lamp illuminating the wall behind the plush headboard. The wall is covered in leaf-patterned yellow wallpaper.
Close-up of a tiny book being held open to the title page, which reads "Schloss's English Bijou Alamanac for 1840" and has an engraved frontispiece featuring a woman and a child. The pages are just barely bigger than the thumbnail of the person holding it.
A fluffy hawk with orangey barred markings on its chest and dark brown/white striped wings sits on a thick gray tree branch, with a tangle of bare branches in the background.
A fluffy black cat sits directly in front of a large tv showing another fluffy black cat.
Picture of a long counter in a classroom covered with a display of old books and cards.
Screengrab from Duolingo that reads "Complete the sentence: I'm sorry, I'm not ok" with the Spanish translation beneath
A black cat lounges on top of a cat tree in a corner in between two black and white portrait prints.
Calendar page for February with days Feb. 2-29, surrounded by a symmetrical border of misteltoe branches on a black background.
A gray cat with a fed-up expression on his face sits in front of a tv, while a black cat peeks out from behind it.