Thursday, March 25, 2010

David Shields

Website: http://www.davidshields.com

David Shields is the author of "Reality Hunger: A Manifesto." His previous book, "The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead," was a New York Times bestseller. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney's, and Utne Reader; he's written reviews for the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Boston Globe, and Philadelphia Inquirer.

Shields has received a Guggenheim fellowship, two NEA fellowships, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation grant, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. He lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, where he is a professor in the English department at the University of Washington. Since 1996 he has also been a member of the faculty in Warren Wilson College's low-residency MFA Program for Writers, in Asheville, North Carolina. His work has been translated into a dozen languages.

Photo: Ben Wirth

David's contribution to Typing In Public:

“Scratch me,” Gretchen said, so I scratched; like an alley cat I scratched.
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