Kevin Clarke is senior editor and chief correspondent and the author of Oscar Romero: Love Must Win Out (Liturgical Press). He returned to his native New York in 2009 after a lengthy tour of duty at Claretian Publications in Chicago: first as an editor and contributor to Salt of the Earth magazine; then as senior editor, columnist and web content manager for U.S. Catholic magazine and uscatholic.org. He is an Albany State grad and has an MA in International Studies from DePaul University in Chicago.Clarke has frequently been honored by the Associated Church Press and the Catholic Press Association for his opinion and feature writing and has been recognized by Catholic Relief Services for his reporting on international issues. In addition to America, SOTE and U.S. Catholic, his work has appeared in the The Washington Post, CNN.com, Sojourners, The Chicago Tribune and The Chicago Reader.