David James Poissant

David James Poissant is the author of the novel Lake Life, a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, Publishers Weekly Summer Read, and an Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Southern Book of 2020. His story collection The Heaven of Animals was a winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a Florida Book Award, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize, and was longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. His stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, One Story, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and in textbooks and anthologies including New Stories from the South, Best New American Voices, and Best American Experimental Writing. His books are in print in seven languages. He teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Central Florida and lives in Orlando with his wife and daughters.