David Milofsky
David Milofsky | |
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| Born | 1946 (age 77–78) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | University of Wisconsin University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts (MFA) |
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David Milofsky (born 1946) is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of six novels and a collection of short fiction: "A Milwaukee Inheritance," "Managed Care," A Friend of Kissinger, Playing from Memory, Eternal People and Color of Law. In addition to writing fiction, he works regularly as a journalist. His short stories, articles and reviews have appeared widely in a variety of national periodicals, including the Milwaukee Journal, the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine. He worked as a script editor on the National Public Radio drama project, Earplay, and has also served as editor of the literary journals Denver Quarterly and Colorado Review. He founded the Center for Literary Publishing and was the founding editor of the Colorado Prize in Poetry. Since 2002 he has written the "Bookbeat" column for The Denver Post. In 1992 he was one of the founders of the Evil Companions Literary Award,[1] which recognizes the contributions of writers who either live in the West or write about the region.
Born in New York City in 1946, Milofsky grew up and was educated in public schools in Wisconsin. He holds degrees in English from the University of Wisconsin and the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A former member of the Board of Directors of the Associated Writing Programs, he has directed writing programs at the University of Denver and Colorado State University, where he is currently Professor of English. He has also taught at Middlebury College, Iowa State University, and the University of Wisconsin. He lives in Denver with his wife and their three children.
Milofsky has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He has also been awarded the Prairie Schooner short fivlctoon award and won the Colorado Book Award for Color of Law.[2] He has also received a Prairie Schooner Short Fiction Award and the Colorado Book Award.
Footnotes
[edit]- ^ "Literary Evil Companions Honored in Denver". Colorado Public Radio. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
- ^ "Contributors' Notes" (PDF). Bellevue Literary Review (New York University). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
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