Bio

Libby Kalmbach Clark

Libby Kalmbach Clark was born in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and raised in the cornfields of Central Illinois, in the town of Normal. She traveled to five of the seven continents between high school and college. Libby studied international studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From 2007-2008 she was a full time volunteer at Annunciation House, an organization in El Paso, Texas, that runs houses of hospitality for immigrants and refugees. Libby received her Master’s of Arts in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University. Her master’s thesis, A House on the Border, was approved with distinction, and she has since expanded it into a full-length memoir about Annunciation House. Libby lives in Chicago and works at the National Immigrant Justice Center.